Distance Training Simplified and The Sprinter's Compendium for coaching. Also Henk's book titled All We Need is Speed
Distance Training Simplified and The Sprinter's Compendium for coaching. Also Henk's book titled All We Need is Speed
This is it:
Aerobics by Dr. Kenneth Copper, the 1st version
This guy coined the term aerobics and did the first studies on the role of oxygen consumption (running) on the body. Very easy to read, enjoyable and one of the best teachers ever!
Saw his book and I used to read online it and can say that it was very informative. I`m a coach and find some good solutions which I can apply on my students. Here is a web page for those who wants to read it.
If you have read running with the buffaloes and you posted yet didn't put this book on your list then please explain yourself.
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No mention of Ron Hill's The Long Hard Road vol 1 and 2 is surprising.
I've been trying to do the reading, absorbing the running fiction that's out there, including:
1) Once a Runner, Parker, Jr.
2) Again to Carthage, Parker, Jr.
3) The Long Run of Myles Mayberry, Alcorn
4) Other Kingdom, Price
5) The Purple Runner, Christman
6) The River Road, Barker
7) Pain, Middleman
8) Olympian - don't have the author
This is my order although I could easily change 5, 6, or 7 - they all have their good points. The one I am liking best (still reading) is The Long run of Myles Mayberry. Very well written and fun. I was not as impressed with the Purple Runner - it too was fun but the ending, character development, a few other small points bothered me.
I'm doing this as I finish my first novel, takings place in 1984, the protagonist an OTC qualifier. The book takes the reader through the training cycle for the next race while following his journey (coach, gf, father - know it's been done before) but a literary work and hopefully something this board will enjoy. Coming out in October by Apprentice House Press.
More to follow!
Running with the pack by Mark Rowland
Amazing book by a contemporary philosopher who talks about philosophical concepts (but in a digestible way for those who haven’t studied it), running marathons and having a wolf and a few dogs as pets.
Good fun. Thought provoking read and oddly inspirational for someone who isn’t a fast runner but genuinely loves it.
Agree. Saw Mark @ at an event here in MI last month; probably the most informative running presentation I've seen in years.
Yeah, I was really only considering fiction. Running with the Buff's, Kiwi's can Fly (Dixon/Walker), Bowerman & The Men of Oregon, A Clean Pair of Heel's (Pirie), Today We Die A Little (Zatopek) are all fantastic. Good fiction is hard to find.
Fiction:
Cross Country 101, Martinez.
My new novel Racing Shadows available Tuesday, October 1. Hope everyone will give it a read. Literary, historical, training an racing sequences modern. Think you all might like.
One day to go!
Running with the Buffalos the pure essence of XC perfectly distilled into one book.
Hansons Marathon Method- great advice and will keep you from just logging stacks of miles as you prep for a marathon ( or at least keep you from worry about it.)
Daniels Running Formula- this book changed training, younger runners have no idea that terms like tempo and threshold weren't tossed around prior to Daniels.
Run Faster Brad Hudson- SOLID training advice.
Racing Weight- Fitzgerald As a runner this is an area where I never really paid much attention. I was always thin and fit, plus I was running a lot. It was the first book that made me really start considering diet as part of the training plan. Other sports, especially bodybuilding and lifting are ALL about the diet- runners tend to neglect that aspect and just want to train more and more and more.
Marathon Man- Bill Rodgers nuff said
'Running for Better' is now free if you have Kindle Unlimited
‘Running for Better’ is a story about developing the mental strength to endure: a marathon mindset. It’s describes a blueprint that you can apply to all areas of your life while telling the story of how the writer, Brian Kearney, cultivated a new sense of direction and clarity in his mid-thirties. Within a year, he progressed from being an occasional runner to running marathons under three hours: nine months after his first marathon in Cork, he ran 2:47 in Barcelona. Since then he has gone to represent Ireland in Cross-Country at masters level. He has written this book because it’s the one he would have wanted to read when he started out as a runner.
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out. Lots of good new running books both sides of the pond. Racing Shadows was written in a similar form, though fiction, the training cycle is legit for top level marathon racing.
Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers, is a very good text book.
I just read the book by Frank Shorter, "My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life." I was surprised at how good it was. Not only were the running stories and training methods interesting, the backstory of his life was very interesting. Tales of his psychotic father, witnessing the '72 Olympic terror attacks, his friendship with Pre and other running legends, plus seeing doping emerge on the scene, made it one of those books I didn't want to put down.
I've read a lot of running books. They can tend to be boring and recycle training themes from other books. This one did not. It was great. I highly recommend.
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I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
adizero Road to Records with Yomif Kejelcha, Agnes Ngetich, Hobbs Kessler & many more is Saturday
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!