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I recently purchased this book to look for a different method of run training to mix my training up a bit this year. I read the overview of the book and was interested in seeing what the book had to offer. It is a pace-based running program based on a recent 5k running result and has only three days of running per week and cross-training on the non-running days. The paces are a bit faster than previous pace-based programs that I have read, so the runs were difficult at first. Many of the pages are filled with success stories and letters from runners that have followed the program and completed races with PRs after following the program. So, if you like to read case studies and get runners' perspectives, you will enjoy the format of the book. I did find myself skipping past some of the stories to get to the "meat" of the program. The book may be a good program to follow for those athletes that have a tendency to get injured on running back-to-back days or high mileage weeks....
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Would you be willing trade some of your weekly miles in for less mileage but more intensity? Would you be willing to not run at all on a couple days and cross train instead? (Swim, bike or other)
...Well, I wasn't sure how I felt about it either. I like running! But, what if you were able to run faster because of it? --Now I've got your attention!
For my first marathon, used a program which called for no speed work and no cross-training, just long slow miles followed by long slow miles. I ended up injured in the last month coming into the race. And, as much as I love running, I also had a lot of days where getting out and doing the work was becoming drudgery.
All that changed when I trained for my second marathon the same year and used this program.
The program gives you three key running workouts a week. The other days call for cross-training, such as biking or swimming. Included are programs for 5k, 10k, and the half-marathon, but the focus is definitely on the marathon. I ...
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"When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run." -Benjamin Cheever
Never having heard of it, I accidentally stumbled upon this book upon the shelf, but drawn as I am to anything with "running" in the title, I picked it up. It did not disappoint. I found it informative, as well as entertaining and humorous.
Written by Benjamin Cheever, novelist and feature writer for Runner's World magazine, Cheever chronicles his own running journey starting in his late twenties as an employee of Reader's Digest, all the while intermingling essays on the role of running throughout history. Cheever bounces back and forth between his own running journey and a myriad of other running topics including the first marathon runner (Pheidippides), running in the military, Kenyan runners, and the Boston Marathon. My only complaint is that Cheever comes across as being a little whiny when it comes to the memoir sections of the book, but ...
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This book reveals nicely the dark side of professional cycling. It was perhaps the most controversial book I've ever read and extremely interesting while at the same time distracting and worrying. Never had I thought doping be such an open thing inside the cycling community.
Is this a true story? Will we ever know for sure?
Well worth the read regardless
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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