What are some of the must read "training books" for a runner? By "training books" I mean books like Jack Daniel's Running Formula and Running with Lydiard (not OAR...though it's a great book as
well...). Thanks a lot!
What are some of the must read "training books" for a runner? By "training books" I mean books like Jack Daniel's Running Formula and Running with Lydiard (not OAR...though it's a great book as
well...). Thanks a lot!
Better Training For Distance Runners- Coe and Martin
Road to The Top- Vigil (very hard to find, but good)
Run With the Best- Benson and Ray
The Lore of Running- Noakes
jack danils
The Self-Made Olympian
I found Road to the Top by Dr. Vigil through the librarian at school. I am sure anybody can do the same with a local librarian. They have many contacts in locating hard to find books.
Another book I would add to the list is Run With The Best by Tony Benson and Irv Ray. I go back to it quite a bit.
We need an edit function on this board. I see Run With The Best was already mentioned. Those four books that the 2nd poster listed are awesome.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
I hadn't read Jonathan Livingston Seagull since I was ~12, several years before I started running (3 decades ago!).
What a great pick!
Running with the Buffaloes is extremely interesting from a training perspective since it gives plenty of day by day details. It's an enjoyable great read too.
CU Buffaloes wrote:
Running with the Buffaloes is extremely interesting from a training perspective since it gives plenty of day by day details. It's an enjoyable great read too.
You beat me to it with the above. And it makes you realize how HARD you have to train to excel. Never thought a non-fiction book could be such a page-turner... but it is !
Training for Young Distance Runners
was the first book I ever got. Helped me alot.
Training for Young Distance Runners
was the first running book I ever got. Helped me alot.
Running Dialogue by Harry Wilson.
Sorry, but I think Lore Of Running is an absolute mess of a book.
The first running book I read was Galloway's Book on Running. It's the first edition from 1984 so that was before he was so into the walk breaks. There's still some good information in there. I read Daniels' Running Formula, Lore of Running, and Running With the Buffaloes this summer. (See what I do when I'm not on letsrun). The most useful would have to be Lore of Running. It has EVERYTHING. I never knew there was so much to running. Daniels' was good too, but some of the same information was already in Lore of Running. RWTB was good, but since I ran in college there wasn't too much new training info to me in there.
Correction: the first running book I read was Training for Young Distance Runners. I forgot I had that book.
Eric Segal ran Boston in 1972. He taught at Yale and if I remember right Frank Shorter was in his English literature class.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Correction: the first running book I read was Training for Young Distance Runners. I forgot I had that book.
PHEW! Thanks for the correction.
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