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    Six Weeks to Love Running: How to Have a Love Affair with Running
    Six Weeks to Love Running: How to Have a Love Affair with Running
    Six Weeks to Love Running: How to Have a Love Affair with Running
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    Six Weeks to Love Running: How to Have a Love Affair with Running

    By Dr. Julie Sieben

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    “I wish I could run!”
    “Looks like great exercise, but I only run if I am being chased!”
    Have you ever muttered any of these words as you drove by a runner, plodding along with a look of determination on his or her face? Do you think runners are crazy to do their thing in all kinds of weather, but at the same time, wonder what it would be like for you to tie up a pair of sneaks and hit the pavement yourself? Running provides a sense of fitness and freedom! You are not alone if you fantasize about finding that bliss, solitude, and joy that runners find addicting. What is it about running that is so alluring? What does it take to be part of that community of endorphin-seekers who look great in a pair of jeans?

    Six Weeks to Love Running will help you find the answers to these questions and more, as you develop a love affair with running and transform yourself, your body, and your life. This engaging, easy-to-use book teaches you the secret to staying motivated and inspired. In 6 weeks, you’ll gradually progress to running for 30 minutes straight! This program will enable you to:

    *Breathe without getting winded
    *Develop proper running style and stride
    *Wear the right clothing and sneakers
    *Begin strength training and stretching to stay injury free
    *Enhance your weight-loss strategies

    Includes: Bonus Walking Program

    Get ready to enjoy a new approach to running and fitness—learn the fundamentals, and fall in love with the heart and soul of running!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSDP Publishing
    Release dateMar 14, 2014
    ISBN9780991159772
    Six Weeks to Love Running: How to Have a Love Affair with Running
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    Dr. Julie Sieben

    Dr. Julie Sieben is a chiropractor, personal trainer, and fitness and yoga instructor. She travels nationally and internationally training and certifying fitness professionals, as well as maintaining a private practice with a distinct focus on holistic health, lifestyle medicine, fitness, and rehabilitation. Her mission is to bring the joy of wellness to others so that the journey to physical health will become a way of life and serve as a catalyst for holistic health, including the mind, body, and spirit. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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      Six Weeks to Love Running - Dr. Julie Sieben

      SIX WEEKS TO LOVE

      RUNNING

      HOW TO HAVE A LOVE AFFAIR

      WITH RUNNING!

      BY

      DR. JULIE SIEBEN

      Six Weeks to Love Running, Published February, 2014

      By Julie Sieben

      Copyright © 2013, Julie Sieben

      Smashwords Edition

      Editorial and Proofreading Services: Aileen McDonough and Karen Grennan

      Interior Layout and Cover Design: Howard Communigrafix, Inc.

      eBook Formatting: Maureen Cutajar

      Photo Credits: all photography by Kelly Davidson/kellydavidsonstudio.com

      Published by SDP Publishing, an imprint of SDP Publishing Solutions, LLC.

      For more information about this book contact Lisa Akoury-Ross by email at

      lross@SDPPublishing.com.

      All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

      To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written request to:

      SDP Publishing

      Permissions Department

      36 Captain’s Way, East Bridgewater, MA 02333

      or email your request to info@SDPPublishing.com.

      ISBN-13 (print): 978-0-9899723-7-6

      ISBN-13 (ebook): 978-0-9911597-7-2

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954719

      DEDICATION

      On Marathon Monday, 2013, I submitted the final copy of the manuscript for this book to my editor just a state over in Rhode Island. Although I have never run the Boston Marathon, I grew up just outside the city of Boston and it’s hard to live around here and not have a special feeling on Marathon Monday. I always look forward to watching the dedicated athletes on the news and listening to the stories of the runners. I am particularly interested this year as I have several patients and friends running it!

      On the morning of April 15th, I sent the manuscript to my editor with an email saying how exciting it was to be submitting my book Six Weeks to Love Running on such a special and historic day in the history of the great sport of running!

      I went out for a run, as it was a fine day, and then hit the gym for a weight workout.

      Upon leaving the gym, the girl at the front desk asked me if I had heard about Boston. What about Boston? I asked. The bombs that went off at the marathon. I turned to the television and sure enough, there were live images of the two bombs that stopped the marathon in its tracks, killing three young people and injuring over 200. At least 20 of the injuries included leg amputations. I left the gym with tears swelling in my eyes and went home to turn on the news.

      The shock and horror surrounding the events of the Marathon continued for over a week as a manhunt to find the suspects shut down Boston neighborhoods, elicited gunfire fights across the city and ultimately found the suspects, one dead and one alive.

      Boston sprung to life in an act of solidarity and compassion and bearing a new identity, Boston Strong. The One Fund Boston was set up by the government officials to assist in the aid of the victims of the bombing, raising over $50 million. And a little over a month later, over 3,000 runners and victims of the bombing gathered to complete the last mile of the Marathon.

      This book is sincerely dedicated to all those affected directly or indirectly by the Boston Marathon bombing. Runners, spectators, first responders and emergency personnel, town officials, families and friends of the victims, churches who rallied with special services, the media, and all of us locally, nationally, and internationally who felt solidarity with the victims of that tragedy. May the contrast of hardship help us all be reminded to live in the moment, enjoy who and what we have in our lives right now, to love, to go for it, be fearless, and have no regrets.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      My thanks go out to all those that have inspired me and kept me motivated along the way as I created this running program and its subsequent book. We started in a park, meeting once a week with a handout of running homework. From there we developed a manual, and finally, this book.

      To Julie McKinney, one of my greatest inspirations, who did the program with me while working and raising a family which, at that time, included five girls under the age of 15.

      To Lisa Akoury-Ross, my publisher, for taking a chance on me and remaining diligent and focused as I worked on the manuscript while tending to the rest of my life.

      To Aileen McDonough, my editor, for her ability to sift out my message and help me clarify it with wit and style.

      To all my friends and family members who took the program with me and encouraged me to turn it into a book. Thank you for letting me know how valuable you found the journey. Thank you for inspiring me to share it with as many people as possible.

      To you, may this book help you learn the simple skills that demystify running so that you can enjoy a trot in the park or a spin around the block and find the peace, clarity, and inner resolve that running offers. May you remember that every day you get to run is a blessing, and every day is a new beginning, another starting line with a fresh course before you.

      Ready? Set? Go!

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRO

      PART I: YOUR LOVE AFFAIR BEGINS

      Chapter 1 Come Here Often?

      Chapter 2 The First Conversation

      Chapter 3 The First Flirtation

      Chapter 4 The First Date

      Chapter 5 The First Dance

      Chapter 6 The First Kiss

      PART II: YOUR STRENGTH AND STRETCH ROUTINE

      Chapter 7 Love Gets Stronger

      PART III: YOUR TRAINING PROGRAM

      Chapter 8 Gettin’ It On

      PART IV: A SIX-WEEK WALKING PROGRAM

      Chapter 9 A Prelude to a Kiss

      Chapter 10 Love Hurts: Common Injuries

      EPILOGUE

      INTRO

      THE FIRST MEETING

      Welcome to your love affair with yourself! It may sound odd to begin a book about running in such a way, but this is not your typical book about running. Consider this book a guidebook, a how-to book, a self-improvement book, and an interactive self-discovery journal.

      I am not alone when I say that running is much more than a physical practice. To me, running is solitude and possibility. Time to think and dream, for my mind to wonder and play. A time for me to consider who I am and who I want to become. I have always worked to make my running practice into something I enjoy. I did this by learning about how to do it, and what style and training methods worked for me. I was never super competitive about it and didn’t really care if I was fast or not. For the most part, I have a relaxed attitude about running. I never considered it to be a form of torture and while, yes, it is exercise, for me the exercise part was a side effect of putting my mind in a restful, blissful, positive state while my body became healthy. It is my hope that this gentle attitude about running will rub off on you as you enjoy this book and program.

      I used to hate running. I did gymnastics when I was younger and had to do a couple laps around the gymnastics building as part of our warm-up. That wasn’t so bad. I started to really dislike running in high school. I played soccer and so we had to do a lot of running. We used to have to do suicides and sprints and indian runs. These high-intensity runs made me feel like throwing up. Sometimes I would even hide in the woods! Because I was not a very good runner and it always felt like a weakness of mine, I decided I needed to do more of it to get better. So, I ran a little bit on my own, which wasn’t as bad as in soccer practice. I was able to go at a pace that was more comfortable for me and I wasn’t being watched and evaluated.

      I kicked off my college career studying piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. I was 17 when I started college, and as it turned out, I didn’t like studying music formally, so I was stressed and anxious (okay, maybe that is just how I am). I had a significant back problem that made sitting quite uncomfortable; practicing scales at the piano became a painful and tedious task. I also gained a little weight, so I started running as a way to manage the weight gain and the stress. I didn’t really know much about running except that it allowed me to get away from my dorm and the anxiety of my studies and float through the streets of Boston. I don’t recall how long I would run, or even how often, just that when I did, I enjoyed it.

      As I struggled to find myself in my late teens and early twenties, running turned out to be a time and place that I could be me. Thoughts flowed, worries diminished, and possibilities seemed to increase. I LOVED to put self-improvement tapes into my sporty yellow tape player and go out and run. When I ran, nothing felt impossible.

      As my love for fitness increased, my back problems improved. I ended up graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a bachelor’s degree in Human Performance and Fitness. Although I ran a lot in college, I never considered myself a real runner. I don’t know why.

      With my degree, I was able to get a job in the field of cardiac rehab, personal training, fitness management, and group exercise instruction. Working as a personal trainer, I obviously talked to a lot of people about exercise and fitness and found that one thing most people had in common was that they wanted to run, or they used to run and wanted to get back into it, but hated to run. The reasons people had for hating running, however, did not seem to override their desire to run. What made running so hated, yet so alluring?

      In 2005, I put together a program called Six Weeks to Love Running. In the program, I took about 6–10 people (mostly women) to a local park and taught

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