Looking for recommendations. And since it is the holidays, it's the perfect time to enhance libraries, gifts, etc...
My favorites:
Daniels' Running Formula
Running to the Top
Running With The Buffaloes
Once A Runner
Run Strong
Advanced Marathoning
30 Phone Booths to Boston
Others?
Running Science by Steve Magness
What I talk about when I talk about running
Running and Being
Running with the Kenyans
Going the distance: one mans journey to the end of his life
Healthy Intelligent Training (Livingstone, about Lydiard method)
Road to the Top (Vigil)
Train Hard Win Easy (Tanser)
More Fire (Tanser)
The Self-Made Olympian (Daws)
Running Your Best (Daws)
Build Your Running Body (new one by Magill)
The Jim Ryun Story
The Perfect Distance
Olympic Gold (Frank Shorter)
Duel In The Sun
The First Four Minutes
Inspiration: why die? By Percy cerutty
Bios: Kiwis Can Fly by Ivan Agnew, no bugles no drums by peter snell, a The First 4 Minutes by bannister, Running To The Top by seb coe
Science: training distance runners dr David Martin
High School:
Cross Country 101.
College:
Running With The Buffaloes.
*stipe wrote:
Looking for recommendations. And since it is the holidays, it's the perfect time to enhance libraries, gifts, etc...
My favorites:
Daniels' Running Formula
Running to the Top
Running With The Buffaloes
Once A Runner
Run Strong
Advanced Marathoning
30 Phone Booths to Boston
Others?
4 Million Footsteps.
I was going to recommend The Long Hard Road by Ron Hill - a classic.
But I see now from Amazon it is virtually unobtainable - $40 for a used copy!
Jizzberg wrote:
Running Science by Steve Magness
Magness is a great guy. And very knowledgeable. However, his book is terrible. Very poor editing and it is a collection of texts on different subjects with minimal stitching between them. Very disappointing.
Rabbit, Run
Jizzberg wrote:
Running Science by Steve Magness
Probably the best training book out there right now honestly. Steve did a great job with this book!
RWTB was fantastic
Once a runner, I've tried to read it and was expecting it to be great but I just can't, it's awful. I'll give it another go at some point I'm sure.
The perfect mile
Marathon Man
Ultramarathon Man 3/5
Eat and Run - probably the best running book i've ever read
Finding Ultra
Run or Die
A life without limits
Bowermen and the men of oregon
Sub 4:00
Runners Guide to the meaning of life
and not running, but by far one of the greatest training, athlete, coach books out there: Gold In the Water, a real 10/10 book.
Run For Your Life by Tim Smith
reading nerd 34564 wrote:
Jizzberg wrote:Running Science by Steve Magness
Probably the best training book out there right now honestly. Steve did a great job with this book!
While the book was poorly edited...the material in there is fantastic. Steve has a great background in the science, and is definitely influenced heavily by Canova, but he also has a nuanced understanding the the differences between HS -- College--Elite, and that good coaches need to take the athlete-centered focus and look at the career, not just that particular season. I've very much appreciated the time he's spent on practical, athlete-centered training that is grounded with a sound scientific background. He's, in my opinion, the next great training mind in the Sport, and people often dismiss him solely because of his age.
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon is a fantastic book. He lead a really interesting life and the chapter on the 10th Mountain Division and the Rajneeshpuram is outstanding.
Born to Run is also a really interesting read. Even if your not into barefoot running and ultras its a cool book. Well done and gives you a bit of insight into a completely different world.
I'm almost done with Follow the Saltire: The Annals of Thames Hare and Hounds, 1868-2012
Runners World did a review a few years back:
http://www.runnersworld.com/races/cross-country-the-original-mud-run
Some parts are detailed race recaps and are dull. But some of the stories are just incredible. Really this is where club XC began.
Many years ago I came across the Hurdlers Bible by Wilber Ross. It is one of the best coaching/sprint/hurdle book I have ever read. Some of it is very technical but the information is timeless. Ross took the time to interview every top hurdler of his day. From those guys and his own experiences he learned the technique issues every hurdler faces and found out how those same guys went about fixing the issues.
coaching;
Athletics,How to be a Champion by Percy Cerutty
biog;
The Jim Ryun Story
The Golden Mile (Elliott)
Running Wild(Gordon Pirie)
The Long Hard Road(Ron Hill)
Together these books tell you what the sport of competitive running is all about and what has to be done if an athlete is really determined to reach the top. The last two titles deal with failure with searing honesty. Read Ron hill's account of the 1972 Olympic marathon; probably never bettered in the entire history of sports writing.
Cerutty at Portsea
For Novels:
Pain
Life at These Speeds
Long Road to Boston
Once a Runner
Again to Carthage
Just to warn you, the ending of Pain is bittersweet, at best.