Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach
by Brad Hudson, Matt Fitzgeraldbook data
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July 29th 2008
by Broadway
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Paperback, 256 pages
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0767928229
(isbn13: 9780767928229)
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Competitive running is more popular than ever, with local charity races and major marathons attracting record numbers of participants. And all these r
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Read in April, 2009
Former-runner-turned-running-coach Brad Hudson details his coaching technique in "Run Faster". Hudson's team, based in beautiful Eugene, trains in his adaptive running technique, which is intimately detailed in "Run Faster". Hudson offers a handful of training maxims, but the strength of his program is not in rules but in the flexibility of training that leads to adaptive success. Contrary to many programs for runners on the market, adaptive running encourages you to find ...more
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Read in May, 2009
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runners who want to improve
I don't know whether to put this as "read" or "currently-reading", because I keep picking it up and re-reading bits of it. I have been incorporating the principles outlined in this book into my training for about three weeks now, and (so far) I love it. What I love about it is that it is not a "do this exactly this way" program, but "here are the principles to build your program on" program. Maybe it requires more thought than the running programs which...more
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Read in December, 2008
Not really a book for beginning runners, but for people who have some idea what their 3K, 5K, 10K, Half-Marathon and Marathon pace is. I am not one of those people, but I like his message about not being a slave to your training plan. He also discusses how people are built to run many miles, but not super fast, or are super fast, but don't run many miles as well. The book includes many training plans.
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Read in November, 2008
Hudson has written a decent book on how to coach yourself to better times for various running distances. The book seems more focused to the competitive runner and not the novice. It has some good theory. The take away for me was to have a plan, but to be prepared to adjust it when necessary. There was also a lot of information on hill sprints and the benefits they can provide. Overall it was an interesting book.
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Read in June, 2009
B+ Some good stuff if you want to coach running or really train seriously; a lot of the stuff gets VERY technical and formulaic and it doesn't seem geared towards the average runner. I'm an obsessive runner and found it a bit much at times. Some great workout ideas and information.
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Read in December, 2008
Hudson coaches the best and he lays out his ideas clearly here. Time will tell if he can coach through a book as well as he does in person.
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Read in April, 2009
A worthwhile speed-read, skipping over the umpteenth repetitions of each point. I particularly liked this book's way of extracting and focusing on weekly schedules for each form of hard workout. Been putting his hill sprint and progression run thoughts into my training the past 6 weeks and feeling good...!
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