My Christmas present from my step daughter! The book covers how to train for a full marathon. I've find myself thinking about doing a full. The book is very clear on how it's a huge commitment. Right now my training for half marathons come second to my family. This means a lot of late night training. All I can say is that I'll think about it. :)
The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer book starts out slow. Each chapter is correlated to the weeks of training for a marathon. Chapters/Weeks 1 through 3, literally put me to sleep. It has a lot of inserts about personal experiences from the various students participating with a marathon training class. At times, these experiences appear to be a space filler with no real information. I found after reading one or two of the personal experiences, I would skip the rest. By chapters/weeks 4 through 6, the book gains my interest, because it starts talking about attitudes, motivation vs acheivement, stretching, visualization techniques, & nutrional principles(lots of discussion about ATP= adenosine triphosphate) ATP is referenced a lot throughout the rest the book. The information provided is very useful. Chapters/weeks 7 through 9 discusses focus/concentration techniques, acheiving flow, cross training, & intensity training. Chapters/weeks 10 through 17 discuss relaxation/mental methods use before, during, & after long runs. Chapters/weeks 15 through 17 become repetitive at the end with a lot more inserts about personal experiences. In each of the chapters/weeks, the running miles increase bringing the runner closer to marathon goals. As I felt as though I was running up and then down a hill as I read through the book. For anyone who is learning to run like me, this book explained how various carbohydrates & vitamins work as you body uses them to run. The information is clear and easy to understand. Some of the psychological aspects from the book, I found I was already doing it. This book is worth reading. It does add some experiences from people who already had some running back ground.
Let me know what you think of it! I've been wondering if it would be a worthwhile read!
ReplyDeleteThe Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer book starts out slow. Each chapter is correlated to the weeks of training for a marathon.
ReplyDeleteChapters/Weeks 1 through 3, literally put me to sleep. It has a lot of inserts about personal experiences from the various students participating with a marathon training class. At times, these experiences appear to be a space filler with no real information. I found after reading one or two of the personal experiences, I would skip the rest.
By chapters/weeks 4 through 6, the book gains my interest, because it starts talking about attitudes, motivation vs acheivement, stretching, visualization techniques, & nutrional principles(lots of discussion about ATP= adenosine triphosphate) ATP is referenced a lot throughout the rest the book. The information provided is very useful.
Chapters/weeks 7 through 9 discusses focus/concentration techniques, acheiving flow, cross training, & intensity training.
Chapters/weeks 10 through 17 discuss relaxation/mental methods use before, during, & after long runs. Chapters/weeks 15 through 17 become repetitive at the end with a lot more inserts about personal experiences.
In each of the chapters/weeks, the running miles increase bringing the runner closer to marathon goals.
As I felt as though I was running up and then down a hill as I read through the book. For anyone who is learning to run like me, this book explained how various carbohydrates & vitamins work as you body uses them to run. The information is clear and easy to understand. Some of the psychological aspects from the book, I found I was already doing it. This book is worth reading. It does add some experiences from people who already had some running back ground.