Runner's World Big Book of Marathon and Half-Marathon Training: Winning Strategies, Inpiring Stories, and the Ultimate Training Tools Author: Jennifer Van Allen | Language: English | ISBN:
B00804QURK | Format: EPUB
Runner's World Big Book of Marathon and Half-Marathon Training: Winning Strategies, Inpiring Stories, and the Ultimate Training Tools Description
The Only Marathon and Half-Marathon Training Book You'll Never Need!Whether you’re looking to run your first race or your fastest,
The Runner’s World Big Book of Marathon and Half-Marathon Training provides all the essentials you’ll need to reach both the starting and finish lines feeling healthy, strong, and ready to run your best. Based on the best advice from the editors of
Runner’s World, this book will be your personal trainer every step of the way.
Inside you’ll find:
- Six marathon and half-marathon training plans
- Training plans for running multiple marathons and half-marathons
- More than two dozen workouts to build speed and endurance
- Three-day eating plans for weight loss
- The perfect carb-loading plan
- Tips on how to lose weight and shear minutes off your PR
- Secrets for relieving side stitches and knee pain, plus the world’s greatest postrace stretch!
Plus, tons of useful nutrition advice, race tips, and more from the experts at
Runner’s World.
- File Size: 1834 KB
- Print Length: 304 pages
- Publisher: Rodale (June 5, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00804QURK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,662 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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First off, I enjoyed the book. Good solid information about training in general. For example, the book clearly articulated hard/easy principles, defining what type of training may be classified as "hard" (speed, tempo, long run, etc.), vs. easy (easy 6 - 12 mile runs where you can hold a conversation while running). The book also delves into many details regarding shoes, running gear, etc. Intermixed are runner's stories (which are "boxed off" so you can easily skip over them if you wish to "cut through the chase") derived primarily from these author's encounters of runners who have enrolled in the "Runners World Challenge" in prior years. Many of these are inspiring and helpful, even for an advanced runner, insofar that they remind us that everyone who runs is a winner, and that there are other ways of defining success besides scoring a trophy or PR.
With that said, this book will probably disappoint competitive runners looking for advanced plans that strike a balance between the hard-core running literature for elite athletes and literature written for those with primarily recreational pursuits. In other words, it may be a little conservative for those who recognize that they will probably never score a placing trophy in their age category but nonetheless wish to push themselves to limit of their ability to find out just what they are made of. A particular disappointment in this regard were the training plans, which were few (as noted by a prior reviewer), and generally pretty conservative, save the long run mileage.
In the next edition I would like to see more training plans with more specific guidance on hill training, and making use of the treadmill when hills are lacking (an area in the literature that is lacking, incidentally).
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