Bob Bartling and several like-minded people founded the Prairie Striders Running Club in 1969 to promote running, fellowship, and health. Bob began collecting books and magazines related to running and track and field, and by 1978, the Prairie Striders Running Club Library was established. It includes 636 volumes of books, about 5,000 periodicals and newsletters, and has the results of 16 annual races. The collection is so complete that even the editors of Runner’s World contact Bob for articles.
The Prairie Striders Library was housed in the basement of Bartling’s store for many years. The library moved to another location in downtown Brookings before finding a permanent home in the H.M. Briggs Library in June 2015. It is currently housed in the compact shelving on the lower level of the library.
This Book Gallery highlights the collection housed at the H.M. Briggs Library
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U.S. Master's Distance Rankings
National Running Data Center
"Official rankings for ... all time lists, 5 km to 24 hour, road and track, ages 35 and up."
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Championship Thinking: The Athlete's Guide to Winning Performance in all Sports
Keith Bell
Describes the mental skills necessary for athletes to consistently perform at their best, and covers relaxation, goal setting, motivation, confidence, fatigue, and anxiety
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Eat to Win: The Sports Nutrition Bible
Robert Haas
Specifically covers a wide spectrum of sports, providing players with advice on determining sports nutrition needs and on developing a nutrition program to increase energy and endurance, with information on fitness, level of play, and injuries.
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Great Races of the Northland
Bruce Brothers
Hamm’s Torturous 26 -- Hopkins 7-mile -- Breezy Point 10K -- St. Patrick’s Day 5 -- Get in Gear -- Easy Race half-marathon -- Syttende Mai 16.2-miler -- Lowry Hill Climb -- Ice Age Trail 50 -- Bonne Bell 10K -- Do It Downtown -- Grandma’s Marathon -- Hopkins Raspberry run -- Kaiser Roll -- Hennepin-Lake Classic -- Paavo Nurmi Marathon -- Twin Cities Marathon -- City of Lakes marathon -- Edmund Fitzgerald ultra -- Mudball -- Dannon 15K -- Thunder Bay races -- Who’s running what?
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Improving Your Running: 52 Weekly Sessions: From Jogging to Fun Runs to 3-Mile to 6-Mile to Marathon Runs!
Bill Squires
Discusses the fundamentals of running, including equipment, nutrition, and injuries. Also provides detailed training programs for different distances and abilities.
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Jumbo Elliott: Maker of Milers, Maker of Men
Francis Elliott
For James Francis "Jumbo" Elliott, track and field's "Coach of the Century," winning was an important thing - but it was not the only thing. Athletics were important because they provided valuable training for success in business - and in life. Responsibility, honesty, decency, industriousness; these were qualities that Elliott tried to instill - by his own example as much as by anything else - in his "boys." Still, in the course of his 46-year career as Villanova University's track coach, the irrepressible Jumbo guided his athletes to 51 team and 467 individual championships. He coached 22 Olympians, including 6 gold and 3 silver medalists. His athletes included: Ron Delaney, Charlie Jenkins, Marty Liquori, Don Paige, Eamonn Coghlan, Sydney Maree... And this was only his part-time job! Elliott's "real" job was at the construction equipment company in which he worked his way up from salesman to owner - and became a millionaire. Jumbo Elliott is more than the biography of a successful coach, more than a rags-to-riches story, though it is both of these. The book contains a very special chapter giving Elliott's view of fitness for the non-athlete - the heart of a book he had begun with his boyhood friend Ted Berry but did not live to complete. Ted Berry completed the work. the result is a heartwarming portrait of a man who believed in working hard and playing hard, a portrait sketched in Elliott's own words and the words of those closest to him. Jumbo Elliott was a sportsman, businessman, family man and, above all, a gentleman. His story will especially delight track enthusiasts, but will touch the hearts of all.
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Mental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence
James Loehr
Is your game not quite as godd as it should be? Do you train hard only to find that at critical moments your concentration not your skill fails you? Dr, Jim Loehr explains how you can develop you mind and your body to play your best.
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Prevention and Treatment of Running Injuries
Robert D'Ambrosia
Exhaustive study of the prevention and treatment of running injuries.
