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Daniels' Running Formula Get in the best shape of your running career with the scientifically based training in Daniels’ Running Formula. In the book that Runner’s World magazine called "the best training book," premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his proven VDOT formula to guide you t...	Explosive Running : Using the Science of Kinesiology to Improve Your Performance If you are a serious runner, you want to improve your ability to run faster and longer without injury. Many runners have bought better shoes or spent longer hours on the track trying to improve, only to end up frustrated with back and leg pain. But the secret to improving your ru...	Advanced Marathoning The growth of marathon running has now far surpassed the "running boom" of the late 1970s. Annually, there are nearly half a million marathon finishers in the U.S. alone, and that number is growing by almost 10 percent every year. More and more runners are now looking to go faste...	Road Racing for Serious Runners Improve your racing performance through multispeed training! Whether your distance is 5K, marathon, or anything in-between, this book tells you how to train smarter and run faster. Pete Pfitzinger—a world-class marathoner, distance running coach, and exercise physiologist—teams...	Lore of Running Now revised, expanded and updated, Lore of Running gives you incomparable detail on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races. Author Tim Noakes blends the expertise of a physician and research scientist with the passion of a dedicated runner to answ...
Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running, Second Edition, (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running) The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running is the most comprehensive and up-to-date running-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by a...	Better Training for Distance Runners This text integrates scientific principles about how the body adapts to training with practical information on designing individualized training programmes for middle- and long-distance runners. It covers: the biomechanics and biochemistry of running; goal-setting for competitive...	Running Tough This collection pulls together effective and challenging training runs from runners and coaches such as Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Arthur Lydlard, Ron Clarke, Emil Zatopek, Craig Masback, and Libbie Hickman. They share the details and secrets of their best training runs and why...	Run to Win: Training Secrets of the Kenyan Runners Within only a few decades, Kenya has established itself as the running nation No. 1. Today, Kenyan athletes dominate the world rankings in all distances between the 800m and the marathon. How did they do this? "Run to win" describes the development of running in Kenya from the ti...	Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, andResults Based on new research in exercise physiology, author and running expert Matt Fitzgerald introduces a first-of-its-kind training strategy that he's named "Brain Training." Runners of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels can learn to maximize their performance by supplying the b...

Comprehensive and well researched
This book is easy to read, yet has very good explanations of techniques and exercises to improve your running. Very good information.

Good summary of the current top 5-6 running books.
This is not a single running "plan", but 12 articles relating to distance running, and related subjects. Some of the articles - maximizing recovery (Pfitzinger), Maintaining Fitness While Injured (Douglas - coauthor of several books with Pfitz), Supplement Guide (Pfeffer), are very focused and well written. They directly address the question for any serious runner - "Are certain activities going to improve my running, by how much, and is it really worth it?" Others such as Rubio's training plan are anecdotal and rambling. "I qualified for the Trials using this plan, so you can too". This is non-specific nonsense that is of no use. The listed references are not sorted or even footnoted in the text - weak. There are 5-6 websites listed, again with no guidance. The editors obviously solicited articles from a wide range of practioners and published (in realtively unedited form) the 12 best, covering what they believed were the most current subjects in distance running. It is a stretch to call this a "book", but still quite useful.

Handy Manual for Runners of All Levels
Regardless of your running level, this concise collection of essays addresses many issues and will surely provide useful information and inspiration from which the runner can pick and choose. Interesting and informative, it will reinforce or realign your current regimen with clarity and effective advice.

Great Information
I learned several new stretches and ways to add a little bit more efficiency to my running style. Very Helpful

Read the chapters - pick and choose what you think is important
This is not a traditional training book like Daniels or Coe and Martin, nor is it one of the scores of "Explain Everything About Running to the Beginner" books out there. Instead, it focuses on the aspects of training with which even experienced runners may be unfamiliar. For example, it discusses lifting weights, stretching, dietary concerns, etc. in addition to topics directly related to running such as peaking for a race, improving leg speed, addressing long-term aerobic development, multi-pace training, etc. This is a valuable book because even if you know a lot about running, you will probably find something new in here. Keep in mind what many of the authors say must be taken with a grain of salt. The jury is still out on whether lower-body exercises and form drills will make you a better distance runner, for example. If you tried to do all the supplementary training discussed in this book, you would probably be working out three hours a day at least. You'll have to try different things and decide for yourself if they are helping your running or just wasting your time and energy. But hey, if you're like most serious runners, you're willing to try almost anything if it will keep you healthy and make you faster. So check the book out for yourself.