pAs she prepares for the 2004 Summer Olympics, our best hope for middle-distance gold tells young women runners where they go wrong--and shares the training and nutrition secrets that put her own career on the fast trackppSuzy Favor-Hamilton is the premier female middle-distance runner in the United States, whose many honors include 6 U.S. National Championships, 9 NCAA Titles, and 4 Big Ten Athlete of the Year Awards now called the Suzy Favor award. In this book, she teams up with Jose Antonio, Ph.D., one of the pre-eminent exercise and sports nutrition scientists in the country, to show young female runners how to improve at their favorite sport.ppCurrently there are 4.6 million women in the United States who run 100 days or more each year. Ini Fast Tracki they will discover br- How much, how hard, and when to train and restpp- The pros and cons of strength training, cross-training, stretching, and other non-running exercisespp- How to avoid the top ten mistakes runners usually makep