TREAD LIGHTLY PA (LARSON)

Distance running is booming in this country. Marathons and half-marathons are selling out and interest in the sport is at an all-time high. Yet runners are still succumbing to foot and leg injuries at an alarming rate. Despite decades of technological innovation, running shoes are failing in their job of protecting runners. Now there is a better way! By embracing simplicity runners have found that relief from pain and chronic injury comes from actually casting aside overbuilt running shoes and orthotic inserts in favor of more minimalist designs that allow the foot freedom to work as nature intended. Runners in barefoot-style shoes feel reborn by running more naturally, much like early man did for millions of years. Picking up where the national bestseller, Born to Run, left off, the coauthors offer compelling evidence why this new minimalist approach to running is here to stay, and is not merely some passing fad. Based on interviews conducted with top running lab researchers, shoe experts, elite runners, and coaches, Tread Lightly is sure to be a groundbreaking book for all runners.

Dr. Peter Larson is an associate professor of biology at Saint Anselm College. He is a Boston-qualifying marathan runner. His website, Runblogger, is recognized as a leading source for information on running shoe innovation and the science of running. Bill Katovsky, founder of Tri-Athlete Magazine, has completed the Hawaii Ironman twice. He is coauthor of Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, and editor of 1,001 Pearls of Runners' Wisdom: Advice and Inspiration for the Open Road, as well as confounder of the Natural Running Center.