Modifying the Norwegian approach to lower mileage

Not used Mulebuy, but they may just be a bit more transparent with the split between the product and the forwarding fee to other countries.

I paid about the same total amount after conversion for these from AliExpress to Australia, it just has the price all bundled together.

Shipping can be a bit steep depending on where you live, I guess China to USA is worse since the tariffs came in.

If you are from the USA you don't need to use mulebuy btw as taobao ships directly to the USA, this will save you more money on shipping and initial costs.

Bulk-buying will also save shipping costs as they can pack several pairs of shoes into one box.

Got my book here in Canada today. Echo what others have said, it's brilliant. I'm halfway through and have learned a good amount and I class myself as someone who has already read most of the thread.

The best thing about it, it's all there for you. Whether you just want the basics or to nose dive head first deeper.

One thing for sure is, to save long answers to questions here, about the how or what to do, simple answer is go spend a small amount to just go buy the book.

Maybe you are the same person who insisted there was no way sirpoc could break 2:40 on a debut marathon off his training lol because this post is only 24 hours old and the fact it's #1 in multiple countries on Amazon, means I can absolutely guarantee it's sold over 300 books EASILY in 24 hours. Probably thousands already. You seemed to be suggesting 300 in total, ever. Laughable.

I think people underestimate:

1. The thread's wider appeal. It started here but has spiralled out way beyond the brojos walls (this thread and the shoetubers thread I her generates a hell of a lot of their message board traffic).

2. Semi serious runners are fed up of influencers, nonsense training shared on socials and simply just plain like sirpoc, as "one of us".

We don’t know how many readers this thread has, but the Strava group has 5,420 members.

In fairness, this was a troll and likely not serious at all

Ordered my copy and it'll be delivered sometime next week ("no rush" delivery for the Amazon electronic credit).

1) Why is "NSM" on the cover crossed out?

2) the tables in the back are cool, but there is no chance I'm worrying about a potential 2-second-per-mile correction for a particular crosswind. Maybe it'll become clear when I read the book, but that seems completely antithetical to what is supposed to be a dead simple method of training. And I can't think of someone who is targeted by this book as also being someone who can dial in their effort within 2 seconds over a mile on a regular basis. (FWIW)

I think it's crossed out as a reference to Sirpoc not liking the name that the method's been stuck with since he posted about it in this thread. I can't remember where, but maybe in this thread or on a podcast appearance he said he'd be more inclined to call it sweetspot training or just simply sub-threshold.

Can't tell if you are joking with question 1? The strike-through is because there's really nothing Norwegian about what sirpoc laid out, but the name is the name.

Question 2. If you are using pace as a proxy, then it's absolutely obvious you have to adjust the paces based on the weather, terrain. This is the biggest mistake I've seen on Strava. Where guys are like "PaCeS tOo FaST". No s**t Sherlock, you are running in 15 mph winds.

Exactly. Almost finished my copy (excellent by the way on of the best running books I've read truly!). He basically makes it clear there is no such thing really as a Norwegian Singles Method. I actually think it's a very clever way of dealing with the subject of what to call it, after people have already named it for him over the last couple of years.

As for the hills and wind stuff, I found that incredibly useful and realised I have fallen into the trap of thinking at times the paces used as a replacement for lactate are too hard, when I was in reality running them in sub-optimal conditions. With what has been provided, it's not hard to just look up the weather forecast and check the tables. Takes 30 seconds before a run. Would be really useful for race planning as well!

The pacing chapter is pure gold. I would have paid £15.99 just for that. The whole book says to me, side you can keep it super easy and just do the basics, but there's lots of little areas that all add up also to better performance. But seriously, the pacing bit really is amazing.

Any chance the Kindle version can be downloaded sooner now that the hard copies are being delivered?

Yes it "is supposed to be a dead simple method of training." But based on the comments here, on Strava and on Reddit most people are brain dead and still cannot follow. Everything needs to be spelled out in great detail for some people who still totally miss the point.

Yeah, I've ordered the paperback but it's gonna be a while for delivery in Australia.
On holiday this week with young kids, the Kindle version would be great for some relief!
As it stands will get it just in time for the return flight at least.

Sirpoc ruins his own book, by not waiting a few days to add to his credentials, as he becomes British masters 5k champion. The story continues.

Waiting for my wife's race, watching the guys come by. Was locked in a tactical battle with two v35 guys who he then looked like he dropped round the back with about a km to go. Around 15 flat, he looked very comfortable of the 3 vying for the win even though he was in third, as they came through the second time.

I hate to say anything negative about this release and I fully intended to buy both the print and Kindle version, but I would skip the Kindle version of this and go print only. If you look at the specs for the Kindle version it's a "print replica" which means that it's not typeset in the kfx/azw3/epub format and basically just a PDF with amazon's DRM wrapper around it.

What this means practically it's that it won't work on Kindle devices themselves, only Kindle app on Android/iOS, and then on read.amazon.com. Probably more importantly, table and diagram heavy content in this format is just painful, especially on smaller screens. And the text won't repaginate/reflow.

Basically my opinion with these (as a Kindle/e-reading fanatic) is that the compromises make them a very frustrating experience, unless you intend to read on only a very big monitor (probably PC, might be passable on a 13" iPad Pro), it's going to be much more usable to just read the print version. Since the whole point of Kindle is convenience, this makes me sad.

I understand having to have a Kindle release and maybe there are some people out there who can't get a print for some reason, so I don't blame our hero for releasing it this way, but I'd really recommend getting the print if you can.

Maybe if it picks up enough steam, he can have one of his future underlings in the Sirpoc Empire of Greatness build a typeset version at some point.

I actually prefer print replicas for non -fiction, they are always better than re-flowable with tables.l and graphs. They are usually fine, as long as you use a tablet or kindle and not your phone. I can't imagine anyone would buy this and use it on their phone, for a book like this. Just get the paperback like a normal person would be my overwhelming advice, unless you have something with a decent sized screen to read on.
At the end of the day, most people mess up graphs and charts if you try work it into a re- flowable.

Lol this guy's life is really a joke at this point. Congrats to him.

I don't think it will load on a Kindle though? I have a scribe, which should be ideal for this type of content, but I think this kind of print replica is "unsupported" on all Kindle devices.