Running Literature & Stretching

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Anyone like to recommend their favourite running books>

Kama Sutra.

and why they like them e.g.

Lots of pics.

Bill R.

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Anyone like to recommend their favourite running books and why they like them e.g. lots of good
info, information well presented & easy to understand, just a good read.

The two that are most worn in my bookshelf are Daniels' Running Formula by Jack Daniels and Road
Racing for Serious Runners by Pfitzinger and Douglas. Both carefully explain and blend science into
the development of training plans so that if you take the time to read the stuff you can start to
understand why tempo runs are useful, why long runs are run at the pace they are, when intervals are
helpful, etc.

In both cases I appreciated the effort that was made to take otherwise baffling scientific
issues and turn them into understandable concepts for the average runner. The training plans are
Ok as well, especially for the beginning runner who is just getting familiar with the concept of
a plan at all.

Pfitzinger and Douglas also collaborated on Advanced Marathoning. I like this one as well, but
haven't had it as long as the other two, so it isn't in my bathroom rotation yet (by which I mean,
it doesn't sit in the reading bin beside the pot, for regular review purposes, unlike the other two,
as well as the entire Dilbert cartoon series)

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Quoted message said:

Anyone like to recommend their favourite running books>

the

Quoted message said:

Kama Sutra.

and why they like them e.g.

Lots of pics.

Thanks, I'll check it out...