Offers advice on achieving goals for running without suffering injury, including mobility and stability tests, tips on the best way to run, and an assessment of running footwear.

Run like an athlete -- Baby biomechanics: The physics of running -- Microanatomy: What are you made of? -- Beyond the mileage log: There's more to it than running hard runs and long runs -- Soft tissue mobility: Did Gumby have it righ? -- Dynamic neuromuscular strength: Make a smarter, stronger spring -- The footwear wrecking ball is swinging back hard, folks: Don't let it smack you in the head! -- Essentials of running gait: The human slingshot -- Assessment and development of the athlete within: Redifining the body you've come to know and love -- Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again: Corrective exercises.