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Title: Road Racing for Serious Runners by Pete Pfitzinger, Scott Douglas, Bill Rodgers ISBN: 0-88011-818-0 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Serious, Smart Training
Comment: Along with Jack Daniel's Running Formula, this book is the best of its kind. It shows you the right way to train and tells you how to do it. This book is great for a beginner as well as an advanced runner. the training programs are easy to understand and they work, whether you race a 5K or marathon. It explains the right pace to use for each workout, whether it be an easy day or speed session. If you want better race times, read this book and train the right way. Use this book as your running bible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't be better.
Comment: I can't imagine a better, more concise book on running training for distances over 1500m. A great introduction to the physiology of endurance racing, and how to apply this knowledge directly to your own workouts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Train smarter, train easier
Comment: Pfitzinger's book finally delivers on what I always want from a book on a complex subject, simple explanations and simple solutions. Why write 800 pages when 188 will suffice. If you are only looking to train for 5K's then you can skip the section on 10K and marathon training and get even more concise explanations. This book gives short, simple explanations to the key elements of a training program. We now know everything we need to know about VO2 max and lactate threshold training, their relative importance, how to improve them and how to incorporate them into your training program. Pete indirectly points out how most of us are doing no lactate threshold training (by running most of our daily runs to slow) and doing all of our interval work to fast. I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve his or her racing times.
I would also suggest buying "Daniels Running Formula". I bought it last summer and my 5K's times went down from 19:40 to 18:50. I bought "Road Racing for Serious Runners" to basically get a second opinion on Daniel's theories. Actually these are not opinions or theories. These are time-tested methods back by sound science. I'm 43 years old and I'm living proof that random training will yield random results. Both Pfitzinger and Jack Daniels book will eliminate the "lets try this" approach to training. Both books cover the same topics and both authors come up with the basically the same training program. Daniels book breaks his schedule into 4 six-week phases while Pfitzinger has a 10-week and an 11 phase. When you look at both plans it becomes obvious and almost laughable on how easy it is to improve on your racing times (and in my case actually cut back on the training intensity).
I would buy both books so you can really feel good about your new training methods. Pete's book is simpler and has separate schedules for some of us low 20-40 mile per week folks. Daniels book has slightly more science and covers more topics. Daniels also has been around longer and has trained more athletes. There are only a few contradictions in Pete's book. He states on page 21 that your volume of Vo2 max workouts (your hard intervals) should be 1 workout per week with a total distance covered of 4 to 8K with the possibility of adding a second lower volume session each week. This corresponds with Daniels book where he has 2 Vo2 max sessions each week (or 1 Vo2 Max and a race). But when you get to the detailed 5K schedules for the 20-40 miles per week you only see 6 Vo2 max workouts scheduled in 21 weeks, despite them being listed as the number one priority. Also only 5 threshold workouts are scheduled in the last 11 weeks for the 20-40 mile schedule. I guess Pete is no dummy. He knows that Bill Rodgers may not use his book and that it will be geared towards people like me. He knows that I'm going to sneak in a combination of ten 5K and 8K races this fall before I attempt to peak in early December. The Daniels book just encourages it and has those realities clearly shown on the schedules. Just buy both books, start training smarter and in some cases a little easier. I've bought bad unhealthy lunches for [PRICE]. If you run this will be the best [PRICE} you will ever spend.
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Title: Daniels' Running Formula by Jack Daniels, Alberto Salazar ISBN: 0880117354 Publisher: Human Kinetics Pub Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger, Scott Douglas ISBN: 0736034315 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Explosive Running : Using the Science of Kinesiology to Improve Your Performance by Michael Yessis, Michael Yessis PhD ISBN: 0809298996 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Alberto Salazar's Guide to Road Racing : Championship Advice for Faster Times from 5K to Marathons by Alberto Salazar, Richard A. Lovett ISBN: 0071383085 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 27 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lore of Running by Timothy Noakes ISBN: 0873229592 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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