Building a Better Runner: Science-Based Training for Peak Performance

About Terry Hamlin

Terry Hamlin began to run to stay in shape for surfing. He went on to the University of South Carolina where he was offered a partial scholarship in his sophomore year and accepted. He has always considered himself a road racer. Two friends Frank Shorter and Steve Prefontaine were having great success on the track and road so Hamlin upped his mileage in 1974. When another friend Bill Rodgers won the 1975 Boston Marathon Hamlin began to focus on the sport even more and learned all he could through his biochemistry/psychology dual major about what made him and other runners tick. Hamlin was ranked in the top twenty distance runners in America in 1979. He won dozens of races from the mile to the marathon. In fact a team he put together in 1978 still holds the US Twenty-Four-Hour Relay Record. In 1977 while working full-time as a chemist at the Medical University of South Carolina Hamlin and Dr. Marcus Newberry put together the famed Cooper River Bridge Run. That same year Terry created the Charleston Running Club one of the best running groups in America. Hamlin is a full-time realtor in Charleston South Carolina and he coaches runners interested in becoming the best runner within. He has coached five runners to the US Olympic Trials and has two more on the way as of the release of this book. Hamlin lives outside his hometown with his wife Dolly and their two schnauzers chickens and assorted animals on his horse farm in the Francis Marion National Forest.Bill Rodgers has won the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon four times each. In 1998 he was inducted to the National Distance Running Hall of Fame and in 1999 he was inducted to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame.