Running Book Library - whatcha got?

other guy wrote:

Racing in the Rain

Once a Runner - best running novel by far

Again to Carthage

Running with the Buffaloes

The Olympian - its a rather dark novel about elite running in the 60s

Pain - novel about an alcoholic elite D1 runner, pretty good

The Self Made Olympian - Ron Daws part autobiography, part self coaching guide

Ron Daws coaching guide - its aimed at beginners but explains lydiard pretty well.

Daniels Running Formula - its good for someone just starting out or who needs a very specific schedule

Chasing Ghosts - its a B level running novel, somewhat inspirational, supposedly if you live in Philly, its pretty cool

I had and sold the Other Kingdom by some Irish guy. Its about an Irish sub 4 miler trying to take it to the next level. It was alright.

Running to the Top - Lydiard. Its a jumbled mess of different Lydiard ideas. I would not reccommend basing a training program off of it.

Marathon: Clarence De Mar Autobiography. Very cool book. An American runs pretty serious mileage and trains in the UK mostly.

Life at These Speeds - novel about a high schooler overcoming tragedy and retreating into high mileage running. Some guy who's claim to fame was playing a teenage mutant ninja turtle turned it into a bad movie.

The Greatest: Haile Gebreselassie biography - very cool, but it ends late in his career, before he moved to the marathon, so its incomplete.

Pre - Tom Jordan. Very cool book by someone who knew Prefontaine. Captures his spirt and his career very well. Better than either of the movies.

Becky Wade runs the world - bad book by a cool chic. Who knew you could make travelling around the world and running in cool places seem boring.

The Perfect Mile - author highlights the competition to run sub 4 between Landry and Bannister and throws in Wes Santee, an American too.

Born to Run - I got it for Christmas a couple years back and haven't read it. I doubt I ever find the time. Maybe I'll take it with me when I go on vacation sometime.

Racing Weight - Fitzgerald. The premise is basically to eat healthy. He's got some weird ideas like weighing less during your competitive phase even though you're running less mileage. The chart and food guide are good, got some good recipes in the back.

Run fast eat slow cook book - pretty good, but I've found I need to make a trip to the store just about everytime I want to make something out of here

Duel in the Sun - explores the Boston marathon race between Salazar and Beardsley (sp) and their careers leading up to it. Beardsley's training and career is particularly inspirational.

Unbroken - good historical book about a guy who competed in the olympics and also became a Japanese POW. Better than the movie.

Jock - I just started it. Its about a guy who ran for Stanford. Autobiographical. He won his first race in a real good time for a frosh. I'm not far in.

Breaking stride - hs sports story about a couple guys running mega mileage in hopes of winning state. I liked it.

That's everything I can think of. I'm not at home, so I can't check my collection, but I might have a couple more. If anybody wants a review of the above let me know and I can prob write a little more. Also interested in expanding my collection if I'm missing any must haves.

Wurlitzer wrote:

other guy wrote:

Racing in the Rain

Once a Runner - best running novel by far

Again to Carthage

Running with the Buffaloes

The Olympian - its a rather dark novel about elite running in the 60s

Pain - novel about an alcoholic elite D1 runner, pretty good

The Self Made Olympian - Ron Daws part autobiography, part self coaching guide

Ron Daws coaching guide - its aimed at beginners but explains lydiard pretty well.

Daniels Running Formula - its good for someone just starting out or who needs a very specific schedule

Chasing Ghosts - its a B level running novel, somewhat inspirational, supposedly if you live in Philly, its pretty cool

I had and sold the Other Kingdom by some Irish guy. Its about an Irish sub 4 miler trying to take it to the next level. It was alright.

Running to the Top - Lydiard. Its a jumbled mess of different Lydiard ideas. I would not reccommend basing a training program off of it.

Marathon: Clarence De Mar Autobiography. Very cool book. An American runs pretty serious mileage and trains in the UK mostly.

Life at These Speeds - novel about a high schooler overcoming tragedy and retreating into high mileage running. Some guy who's claim to fame was playing a teenage mutant ninja turtle turned it into a bad movie.

The Greatest: Haile Gebreselassie biography - very cool, but it ends late in his career, before he moved to the marathon, so its incomplete.

Pre - Tom Jordan. Very cool book by someone who knew Prefontaine. Captures his spirt and his career very well. Better than either of the movies.

Becky Wade runs the world - bad book by a cool chic. Who knew you could make travelling around the world and running in cool places seem boring.

The Perfect Mile - author highlights the competition to run sub 4 between Landry and Bannister and throws in Wes Santee, an American too.

Born to Run - I got it for Christmas a couple years back and haven't read it. I doubt I ever find the time. Maybe I'll take it with me when I go on vacation sometime.

Racing Weight - Fitzgerald. The premise is basically to eat healthy. He's got some weird ideas like weighing less during your competitive phase even though you're running less mileage. The chart and food guide are good, got some good recipes in the back.

Run fast eat slow cook book - pretty good, but I've found I need to make a trip to the store just about everytime I want to make something out of here

Duel in the Sun - explores the Boston marathon race between Salazar and Beardsley (sp) and their careers leading up to it. Beardsley's training and career is particularly inspirational.

Unbroken - good historical book about a guy who competed in the olympics and also became a Japanese POW. Better than the movie.

Jock - I just started it. Its about a guy who ran for Stanford. Autobiographical. He won his first race in a real good time for a frosh. I'm not far in.

Breaking stride - hs sports story about a couple guys running mega mileage in hopes of winning state. I liked it.

That's everything I can think of. I'm not at home, so I can't check my collection, but I might have a couple more. If anybody wants a review of the above let me know and I can prob write a little more. Also interested in expanding my collection if I'm missing any must haves.

Racing in the Rain is a great running book.

LtM wrote:

Running Books, with a few assorted cycling and triathlon books. Several have an editor, not an author.

1. Abt – Lemond: The Incredible Comeback of an American Hero

2. Annerino – Running Wild

3. Armijo – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cycling

4. Atkinson – The Games

5. Averbuch – The Woman Runner

6. Bascomb – The Perfect Mile

7. Battista – The Runner’s Literary Companion

8. Bannister – The Four Minute Mile

9. Beck – Run Strong

10. Benyo – Making the Marathon Your Event

11. Benyo – The Masters of the Marathon

12. Bloch – How to Train for and Run Your Best Marathon

13. Bloom – The Marathon

14. Bloom – Run With the champions

15. Bloom – The Runner’s Bible

16. Brandt – Duel in the Sun

17. Carlson – Tales of Gold

18. Clayton – Running to the Top

19. Dellinger – The Competitive Runner’s Training Book

20. Derderian – Boston Marathon

21. Derse – AAF/ CIF Cross Country Coaching Program

22. Dick – Training Theory

23. Dolson – Always Young

24. Emmerton – The Official Book of Running

25. Falls – The Boston Marathon

26. Fitzgerald – Iron War

27. Fixx – The Complete Book of Running

28. Fixx – The Complete Book of Running

29. Fixx – The Complete Book of Running

30. Fixx – The Complete Book of Running

31. Fixx – Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running

32. Fletcher – Spaghetti Every Friday

33. Fletcher – Spaghetti Every Friday (signed, but not to me)

34. Galloway – Galloway’s Book on Running

35. Galloway – Galloway’s Book on Running (signed, but not to me)

36. Giller – The Golden Milers

37. Glover – The Competitive Runner’s Handbook

38. Glover - The Injured Runner’s Training Handbook

39. Gross - Endurance

40. Hanna – Running With Your Head

41. Hayes – Run, Bullet, Run

42. Heinonen – Sports Illustrated Running for Women

43. Heinrich – Racing the Antelope

44. Heinrich – Why We Run

45. Henderson – Road Racers and Their Training

46. Henderson – Run Gently, Run Long

47. Henderson – Running A to Z

48. Higdon – Beginner’s running Guide

49. Higdon – Boston

50. Higdon – The Complete Diet Guide for Runners and Other Athletes

51. Higdon – How to Train

52. Higdon – Marathon

53. Higdon – The Marathoners

54. Higdon – On the Run From Dogs and People

55. Higdon – Run Fast

56. Hirsch – The Runners

57. Hirsch – The Runners

58. Hudson – Run Faster From the 5K to the Marathon

59. Hollobaugh – 100 Stars of American Track and Field

60. Hosler – Boston: America’s Oldest Marathon

61. Humphreys – Focus on Middle Distance Running

62. Jackson – Life at These Speeds

63. Jerome – The Sweet Spot in Time

64. Killanin – The Olympic Games 1984

65. Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner

66. Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner

67. Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner II

68. Lawrence – Running and Racing After 35

69. Lawson – World Record Breakers in Track and Field Athletics

70. Lear – Running With the Buffaloes

71. Lebow – The New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running

72. Lenton - Interviews

73. Lewis – Inside Track

74. Lilliefors – Total Running

75. Liquori – Marty Liquori’s Guide for the Elite Runner

76. Liquori – Marty Liquori’s Guide for the Elite Runner

77. Long – Cross Country for Coaches and Runners

78. Lydiard – Running the Lydiard Way (signed, but not to me)

79. Martin – Training Distance Runners

80. Martin – Better Training for Distance Runners

81. McClinton – Cross – Country Runner

82. Moore – Best Efforts

83. Moore – Bowerman and the Men of Oregon

84. Moore – Bowerman and the Men of Oregon (signed, but not to me)

85. Murphy – A Cold Clear Day

86. Nepolitan – Training Profiles: high School Boys Distance

87. Noakes – Lore of Running

88. Noakes – Lore of Running

89. Osler – Serious runner’s Handbook

90. Parker – Once a Runner

91. Pfitzinger – Advanced Marathoning (signed by Scott Douglas to me)

92. Pfitzinger – Road Racing for Serious Runners

93. Plant – Iron Will

94. Rodgers – Bill Rodgers’ Lifetime Running Plan

95. Rodgers – Marathoning

96. Runner’s World – The Complete Marathoner

97. Runner’s world – The Complete Runner

98. Runner’s World – The Complete Runner

99. Runner’s World – Guide to Distance Running

100. Samuelson – Running for Women

101. Sandrock – Running With the Legends

102. Schreiber – Training to run the Perfect Marathon

103. Schul – In the Long Run

104. Scott – The Miler

105. Shapiro – On the Road

106. Sheehan – Running to Win

107. Sheehan – Running and Being

108. Sheehan – This Running Life

109. Sheehan – This Running Life

110. Sheehan – This Running Life

111. Sparks – Long Distance Runner’s Guide to Training and Racing

112. Sparks – Runners Book of Training Secrets

113. Squires – Improving Your Runner

114. Squires – Improving Women’s Running

115. Steffney – Running for Women

116. Strasser – The Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There

117. Suozza – The Chicago Marathon

118. Ullyot – Running Free

119. Waitz – World Class

120. Wallechinsky – The Complete Book of the Olympics

121. Wallechinsky – The Complete Book of the Olympics

122. Weinberg – Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology

123. Williams – C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Footrace

124. Will-Weber – The Quotable Runner

Pamphlets and Booklets

1. Bergen – Championship Drills and Workouts/Middle Distance and Cross Country

2. TFN – High School Track 1976

3. TFN – High School Track 1978

4. Track and Field News – Talking Track

5. Kardong – Children’s Running

6. TFN – Big Red Book

7. Watman – Olympic Track and Field Athletics guide

8. RW – 1974 Marathon Handbook

9. RW – The Boston Marathon

10. RW – Dave Wottle Story

11. RW – Exercises for Runners

12. RW – The Frank Shorter Story

13. RW – The Frank Shorter Story

14. RW – Interval Training

15. RW – The Runner’s Diet

16. RW – Runner’s Training Guide

17. RW – Runner’s Training Guide

18. RW – Tale of the Ancient Marathoner

19. RW – Tale of the Ancient Marathoner

20. RW – The Varied World of Cross-Country

21. RW – The Young runner