The Competitive Runner’s Handbook: The Bestselling Guide to Running 5Ks through Marathons
- ISBN13: 9780140469905
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
For both runners entering that first neighborhood race and elite marathoners, trainers Bob and Shelly-lynn Florence Glover’s completely revised guide is the book on training to compete. A book that’s already sold close to 200,000 copies, The Competitive Runner’s Handbook will now offer all the latest information needed to design basic training programs; special workouts to increase strength, endurance, and power; schedules and worksheets to develop individual goals;… More >>
The Competitive Runner’s Handbook: The Bestselling Guide to Running 5Ks through Marathons
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March 14th, 2010 at 1:32 am
I love this book, I really do. Much like all of the other reviewers I commend it’s content.
However, I’ve really had to work hard to read this book. Everything is in miles! In fact, worse, it mixes up miles and kilometers! I’ve had to build myself a metric conversion table on the front cover.
Please Bob and Shelly-Lynn, just use kilometers and be done with it.
To quote ukmetrication.com:
“96% of the world’s population use the simpler, more convenient & easier to understand metric system.”
AND
“the only countries that still use the imperial system are America, Myanmar, Yemen, Liberia (West Africa), North and South Yemen, Rwanda and Burundi.”
Rating: 3 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 4:05 am
The writer of this book is so much in love with himself and it is so much of a theme that I simply had to put the book down.
You can find what you need elsewhere if you cant bear to listen to Bob Glover praise himself, thats what I did.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 5:04 am
This is the BIBLE when it comes to running/racing. Put all of the other ones back. This is all you need!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 5:14 am
This is my least favorite running book although it is written competently enough. Too much childish ego on the part of the authors detracts from an otherwise good enough book. The best part of the book for me was the discussion of heart rate training, something that is barely mentioned in many of the other running books. There is also not enough explanation on developing training schedules which wasn’t too much of a surprise since the authors sell guess what?… training schedules and coaching. Worth buying but not the best.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Kindle Version only: I ended up buying this book in print after I found that many of the charts were impossible to read on the Kindle. This is just one of the reasons I have been disappointed with the Kindle.
Rating: 2 / 5