I just purchased this book online. Has anyone read this book? Your opinion? Thanks.
I just purchased this book online. Has anyone read this book? Your opinion? Thanks.
So you buy the book and then ask for other opinions?
Yes. I bought his first book, "Self-Made" Olympian and it was one of the most influential running books that I have ever read. So I bought this mainly b/c of the first.
But that doesn't mean I know what the next is about or if it will be good. So please help if you've read...
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Hah. wrote:
I just purchased this book online. Has anyone read this book? Your opinion? Thanks.
Wasn't as good as "Self Made Olympian".
aksncx wrote:
You'll find out what it's about and if it is good by reading it, right sporto?
Are you going to send it back unopened if you read something negative here/
Perhaps he would like to hear specific opinions of items in the book. The decision on whether or not to buy a book need not be the only thing affect by the opinion of another. Or weren't you aware of that?
So sorry you can't get laid. But please, don't take your frustration out on others. You just end up looking foolish.
Hah - maybe you better get Lorraine Moller's book too and see what she thinks about him.
Great book. Lot's of valuable info and solid training schedules. I met Ron at the 92 Mens Olympic Marathon Trials, shortly before he died. Super nice guy and took the time to talk to me about training. Very inspirational.
chrissy wrote:
Hah - maybe you better get Lorraine Moller's book too and see what she thinks about him.
She said their relationship didn't work but the training helped get her to an Olympic bronze medal.
PreRunner wrote:
Great book. Lot's of valuable info and solid training schedules. I met Ron at the 92 Mens Olympic Marathon Trials, shortly before he died. Super nice guy and took the time to talk to me about training. Very inspirational.
I had to check your user name to make sure that I wasn't responding to myself. I also met Ron at the '92 Trials, along with Buddy Edelen. Ron and I had rather similar views on training, and rather similar histories in the sport, in that we had both been written off as untalented slugs early in our running careers, and had then "coached" ourselves into pretty competent marathoners. I was surprised by his death shortly thereafter, since he seemed very fit and really enthusiastic about his post-running passion for cross-country skiing.
I think "Running Your Best" is a good book. By the time I read it, there probably wasn't a lot that Daws could teach me, and I recognized the source material for much of what he wrote. But Daws accumulated a lot of wisdom in his years of running and coaching, and his advice would carry much more weight with me than the advice of most of the other self-proclaimed experts who have written books on how to train.
Hah.
avocacdos number says it well. the book is a find, be glad you have it as a resource on you book shelf. it is accumulated wisdom.
i met ron at the 1980 falmouth road race clinic. when i complimented him on "the self made olympian" he told me runner's world had cut a lot from the book and he was disappointed with the result. i imagine that is why he wrote "running your best". his 2 books are great for us followers of the lydiard method and for all who want to dream we can improve with a system and plenty of hard work.
I, too, was fortunate enough to meet Ron Daws. I was there, in 1967, when he made his big breakthrough and became the United States Marathon Champion and an US team Member for the first time
It was on June 11, 1967. At that time our marathon times were not too far apart and, I believe, that we both were in the top 25 in Boston that same year with Ron being a few places ahead of me.
It was brutally hot on that June 11th day in Holyoke. Most of the best US Marathon runners were there. If my memory is correct that included John J. Kelley, Norm Higgins, the 1966 US Champion, Hal Higdon, 5th in Boston in 1964, and many others. I do remember that the sweat was rolling off me well before the race started and I was unable to warm up properly. I also remember being surprised when some of the best marathoners in the US began dropping out even before we even reached the ten mile mark. By the half way point the majority of the elite runners were sitting on the . I remember beginning to lean backwards and feeling dizzy. Then I could not run in a straight line and and kept hitting the curb so I too sat down on the curb.
After the completion of the race, I was walking in the finish area and an elated Ron Daws, the race winner, jogged across my path in a hurry to find a telephone to call his family but he took the time to stop and have a word with me.
That race was the race that propelled him into being a Champion, placed him on the US PanAmerican team and gave him the confidence to become an Olympian.
Ron Daws was an extremely nice guy and a self-made Olympian. We are lucky that he took the time to share his ideas and methods with the rest of the marathon world. As this thread shows, we are still learning from him.
The person who knows as much about Ron as anybody is letsrun.com poster Steve Hoag (second in Boston in 1975) and78 who became an extremely fine Marathoner with Ron's coaching.
chrissy wrote:
Hah - maybe you better get Lorraine Moller's book too and see what she thinks about him.
So a person's credibility about running should be based on his/her success in ONE romantic relationship?
Pretty harsh measuring stick, I think.
[quote]OrvilleAtkins wrote:
I, too, was fortunate enough to meet Ron Daws. I was there, in 1967, when he made his big breakthrough and became the United States Marathon Champion and an US team Member for the first time
I got to know Ron when he was a camp counselor at High Altitude Distance Camp Crockett in the mid 70s in Colorado. A really nice and humble guy. He showed us how to do a Lydiard-hill-bounding workout, which at 8,000 ft was a killer!
I have been trying to learn about running from a book by Ron Daws. I wondered how he died at age 55 from a heart attack. Maybe this running isn't good for you. I am just curious. Does anybody know more about this?
Here is an interview with Ron Daws from July 1984.