Advanced Marathoning This new edition has all the information readers need to train smarter, remain injury free and arrive on the start line ready to run the marathon of their life. Readers will learn how to complement their running workouts with strength, core, flexibility and form training; implement cutting-edge nutrition and hydration strategies and recovery techniques and taper properly to reach peak performance. It comes with easy-to-understand day-by-day training schedules for 18 and 12 week preparation for weekly distances of 55, 55 to 70, 70 to 85 and 85 plus miles. This book is simply the most comprehensive and efficient approach to marathoning.
Customer Review: Outstanding Training Guide
This book is the finest Marathon Training Guide I’ve seen. It is written for any level runner from first time Marathoner to experienced veteran. The author explains in an easy to understand format the reasons behind his system. This system works! The better job I did of following the book the faster my times dropped. I’ve taken over 30 minutes off my marathon time in a 2 1/2 year period. The book has easy to follow running schedules for a wide variety of training circumstances.
Customer Review: Great book if you want to train seriously for a personal best
I really can’t say enough good things about this book. I’ll start by saying that having just followed the “below 70 miles per week” training plan pretty faithfully, I just lowered my personal best in the marathon by 19 minutes, breaking 2:50 for the first time. I also actually enjoyed running the marathon, right to the finish, did not hit “The Wall”, and sustained my highest weekly mileage ever without sustaining injury. I attribute a lot of this success to this book.
You need to be fairly serious about training to benefit from this book - the training plans are best suited for those who are willing to do 60 miles per week or more. (The 70+ mile per week plan contains a section “When 93 miles per week just aren’t enough”). But the book places a strong emphasis on recovery and nutrition, which I think were critical in allowing me to increase mileage without getting hurt, sick, or run-down. And you certainly don’t need to be elite - just willing and able to find the time and energy for a fairly large amount of training.
There are a lot of things to get right in a marathon, and almost all of them seem to be addressed here: all the different types and intensities of training, how to make sure you recover on your “easy” days, how to replenish carbohydrate stores after long runs, how to taper, race day strategy, carbo-loading, hydration, and even how to recover intelligently in the month after the race. Impressively, the book manages to cover all these aspects while being readable and quite easy to comprehend and remember.
A lot of ideas in this book are quite similar to Daniel’s Running Formula (another good book) but tuned specifically for the marathon and made a bit easier to digest because it only covers that one event.
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