Marathon Willpower

Do you have questions like these about willpower and your marathon training and racing?

Marathon Willpower

  • How do commitment and progress affect my willpower?
  • Is there such a thing as too much willpower?
  • How do pride, shame, and guilt affect my willpower?
  • What are some things to do during a race to protect willpower?
  • Which runs out first, muscle energy or willpower?

Marathon Willpower answers these questions — and more — by covering:

  • Thirteen ways that your thoughts and feelings affect your willpower
  • Three impacts of your physiology on your willpower
  • Ten willpower recommendations about your diet
  • Twelve research-driven approaches to maximizing your willpower to work out
  • Six connections between everyday activities and your willpower
  • Four willpower implications for marathon training groups
  • Six effects of authority figures and strangers on your willpower
  • Eight opportunities to leverage willpower research for your future

Each chapter of Marathon Willpower begins by challenging you with a question. The chapter then gives you the correct answer, the research behind it, and some practical advice that you can apply right away.

  • If you are not a marathoner, then you should get Willpower.
  • But, if you are one, then you should get this book instead!

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About the Dedication

I dedicated Marathon Willpower in this way:

Dedicated to the people
of Operation Underground Railroad,
who demonstrate their own form
of marathon willpower
as they rescue kidnapped children
from slavery

Learn more at OURrescue.org

On June 2, 2014, I was some six months into a fifteen-month project to write Marathon Willpower. I heard Dennis Prager, author of Happiness Is a Serious Problem and radio talk-show host, interview Tim Ballard, Founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, a group that saves children from human trafficking. According to O.U.R., nearly two million children are sex slaves.

O.U.R. uses “abolitionists” to refer to its supporters, and my wife and I eventually became abolitionists at a modest monthly-donation level. We then started to follow news of what O.U.R. calls “jump” teams and their child-rescue stories.

I realized several months later that our automatic donations had stopped — apparently due to a change in a credit-card number. After I corrected this, I started thinking about how I might help O.U.R. in a bigger way.

Dedicating this book to the people of O.U.R. made the most sense. O.U.R. jump teams follow what I would call a “marathon” process to complete a successful rescue. And, O.U.R. relies on donations:

We are here to rescue them. We are not a government agency. We are a non-profit organization that relies one hundred percent on donation to save them. And we do it because no child should be a sex slave.

As I was writing this story behind the dedication, O.U.R. tweeted:


I replied the next morning with this:


If you agree with me, then I invite you to learn more here.

Unsolicited Review from Winner of Marathon Willpower Paperback Giveaway

Thank you so much! My daughters have been reading it so I’m patiently waiting my turn. They love it.
— Suzanne King, May 7, 2015

   

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