This is my training library - what else do I need?

Training Advice/Discussion General

14 years ago 04/20/2009 3:02pm EDT

This are the books I have:

- Daniels Running Formula, 1st ed. - Daniels

- Daniels Running Formula, 2nd ed. - Daniels

- Better Training for Distance Runners - Coe & Martin

- Run Faster 5k to Marathon - Hudson

- Scientific Training for the Marathon - Canova

I've also printed these guides from the internet that I refer to occasionally:

- Hadd's Approach to Distance Training:

http://www.electricblues.com/Hadd.doc

- Joe Rubio's Middle Distance Guide:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070210141608/http://wls3.com/running/rubio.php

- The Training Wisdom of John Kellogg:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=192559&thread=192559

- Summer of Malmo:

http://www.bunnhill.com/BobHodge/rtp3.htm

What do you think? Am I pretty much all set?

14 years ago 04/20/2009 3:05pm EDT

re: to be learned

14 years ago 04/20/2009 3:06pm EDT

re: to be learned

to be learned wrote:
What do you think? Am I pretty much all set?

How about getting out the door and doing some miles?

14 years ago 04/20/2009 3:41pm EDT

re: Learned

Of course. I am and have been doing miles.

14 years ago 04/20/2009 6:05pm EDT

re: to be learned

14 years ago 04/21/2009 12:49pm EDT

re: Rocafella

Marty Liquori's Guide for the Elite Runner

14 years ago 04/21/2009 12:59pm EDT

re: Color Commentator

All good books, but here's a thought:

Some of the best thinkers in running - Bill Bowerman, Arthur Lydiard, Bob Kennedy - recommend feeling-based training.

That's because any system tends to break down where it intersects with the needs of individual runners. On any given day, our bodies may not be able to do the planned mileage/speed. And that's where "listening to the body" comes in.

But that's not so easy to do. Many times, the reasons we're feeling sub-par (or above par) are deeply hidden, or complex. The one reliable way to know what to do is to listen to inner feeling. It's not airy-fairy at all. The body "speaks" to us through subtle feeling. A long warmup is a good time to check the body's messages for the day. If we tentatively speed up and the body says "not yet" or "not today," the message will appear as an unmistakable but subtle feeling of unease, disharmony, or "not-rightness."

On the other hand, when the body says "all systems go," the message comes through as a strong feeling of "rightness." Physically, we fall easily into the faster pace - with easy, relaxed breathing.

Feeling-based training changed my running drastically for the better.

runbei -

www.fitnessintuition.com

14 years ago 04/21/2009 1:21pm EDT

re: Learned

It is funny that 'Learned' would say that after logging onto Letsrun, then entering the message board forum, then browsing through the threads to find this one, and taking the time to enter a negative response to this runner\'s library collection...

I think you are set my man, seems like good material you got there, and I do add +1 to The Lore of Running. Most of the information is scientific, but is worth a read. If I were you, I wouldn\'t pick and choose from different philosophies because they all have different \"methods.\" Even the smallest details shouldn\'t be ignored. Canova\'s work seemes to be the most succesful current training methods at the moment though...(sorry Daniels)

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