Modifying the Norwegian approach to lower mileage

Yeah. Sometimes the guy seems to get too little respect because he hasn't improved all that much since 2022, but imagine having to run 3-6 hours on the dreadmill each week. I'd quit this hobby in a heartbeat.

Do you have links at all? For the Do-wins how do you find the size?

Not Eliud but the size of the Do-Wins (both PB3 and PB Pro) really doesn't feel all that different for me. At "worst", it's pre-AP4 Adiclogs sizing but not bad enough to size down imo.

Oddly, I also don't have any problems with the Catfish despite my slightly wider feet.

To select a size, click add to cart and options will appear, you may have to play around with colourways to find one in your size.

Regarding sizing, some of these shoes have a size chart image, the most consistent number I've seen between brands is the mm length. Anything that is 255mm - 260mm fits me best, for some brands this is EU size 40, for others its 41, but size 41 in li ning is very different to size 41 from dynafish for example. Frustratingly, this is different from the mm lengths listed on western brands, in Nikes I'm a size 7 UK, which is only 245mm on their website. 245mm shoes from China would be way too small for me.

For Li-ning I've found the UK size listed is correct for me, so you can work off that to find your "mm size" for other brands.

Links:

https://m.mulebuy.com/pages/product/product?id=973696858820&shoptype=TAOBAO (red hare 8 pro)

https://m.mulebuy.com/pages/product/product?id=870211473802&shoptype=TAOBAO (challenger 5)

https://m.mulebuy.com/pages/product/product?id=895132364739&shoptype=TAOBAO (pb pro)

https://m.mulebuy.com/pages/product/product?id=984138420559&shoptype=TAOBAO (dynafish xiaonian)

Ha ha I wish I could say this was true, and all part of my genius plan. Sadly, I'm an idiot and accidentally clicked publish early probably, or who knows, Amazon just decided to drop it. I have no idea.

A lot of people have said there should be some marketing strategy. My plan was release a book that I think is good, then hope someone else recommends it to a friend to help them become a better runner, and so on. That's it. I genuinely don't care how many it sells.

If it sells 10 copies but means nobody ever asks me again how fast their 3 min reps should be, it'll have been worth way more than any big sales target a publishing company wanted to set, including having to do promotional stuff and ramming it down folks via socials etc.

This is probably gonna get answered in the book, but how long should the 3 minute intervals be?

About the time it took to pour Jiggymeister the perfect pint of Guinness, post Great South Run. If you know you know, if you don't, this isn't the method for you.

Not sure if I am the first one with a copy, came about 2.5 hours ago here in the UK and felt the need to post. Like someone else shared above, I caught the link yesterday whilst it was still available for delivery today.

Thoughts, having got about a third through.

Quality is excellent. Anyone who thought this was just a pamphlet will be totally shocked. This looks like and is, a book you would expect a publishing house to drop. In fact, surpasses some books that I bet have sold 6 figure sales.

Content: enjoying it immensely. It's linear, starting right back at the begining to cycling, a bit of history of why he started running and then onto some of the problems he ran into including the theory I'm up to of the new approach he went with, training load etc. It's also very well written, I've laughed out loud a few times and sirpoc is clearly a natural at this, I hope he realises that.

Visuals: these are fantastic, adds an extra layer to it all. Some of it is quite in depth, but those sections are add-ons to dip into if you choose, it will make sense when you see it and gives the book two layers, the real basics, but also for those who want a bit more.

The foreword by Bakken is very good and it's clear if he was going to tell a hobby jogger how to train, he is fully on board. That, I think, is striking.

You certainly don't need to be a fan of this thread or have the background here, to enjoy this or understand it. I noticed it's #1 in the UK running book chart and this could genuinely be the book your "average" runner turns to, for just about everything. It might even turn the average runner into good, the good into excellent and so on.

A couple of Letsrun Easter eggs though, one I especially laughed at, either in the preface or prologue.

I wonder if eBay will crash with the flood of sales of used Jack Daniel’s and Pfitz books!

How about we leave some good, helpful reviews? The type you're glad someone took the time to write, that really helps the next person understand what the book's about.

This is the best way to get a book like this the attention it deserves.

Haha - books, loose tea and Marmite as it happens.

Have my copy. Absolutely worth the £15.99 to be delivered to my front door this morning in the UK. Will echo how this is way beyond anything anyone is going to be expecting, for those who were expecting a pdf or something like EIM. Going to buy a couple more copies for running friends for Xmas presents. Salute to sirpoc and the couple of guys who helped him put this together.

Is the book only available on Amazon ?

Not sure if they were there yesterday but you can read around 20 sample pages on the amazon link now

Miles listed as "Freedom units" as an appendix for the pace tables. As an American I laughed pretty hard and was offended all at once. Good stuff.

As ever with these Amazon previews, you never get any of the good stuff. But the chapters look like what we would expect and I'm sure everything is covered.

Looks good, really looking forward to my copy arriving tomorrow. A few easy to spot errors in the sample pages unfortunately but every training book seems to have them for some reason.

Read it through. Absolutely Fantastic, one of the best running books I've ever read. This will change how we look at training for general hobby joggers, who aren't aware of this thead.

A lot of it has been covered in the thread, some interesting new stuff and some really useful charts to refer back to, especially that will help me massively with pacing. A severe area of weakeness for me and I learned a huge amount from that chapter, will go back and read it, along with the tapering section, before my race in a few weeks. I've always thought sirpoc knows more than most about pacing, when you see how well he executes races.

Some visuals really help, a growth on how training load of Subthreshold version more textbook running blocks compare long term was pretty eye opening and makes sense, if you buy into volume or load is probably the primary driver of our fitness and performance levels.

To put this together, with some of the help he fully acknowledges, when you consider this was just a random dude posting on Letsrun 2 years ago, is wild.

Would happily recommend it to anyone who is a semi serious runner. In fact the gateway into this method on 4 hours a week is a really nice part, to give a much lower entry point (along with the plan of how to structure that week).
Some pretty funny bits as well. Appreciated the nod to The Wire, which I popped for.

The sample looks great. Already learned something really useful and interesting about headwinds and tailwinds just from reading that