Day 10 draws to an end with FRC’s weekly Rite Aid run. Once again I took a wrong turn and went for a little longer run than planned. Not only that but I also started at a little to fast of a pace. This humidity is crazy and it’s kicking my butt. The run did put me over 500 miles for the year. I am still lacking some miles from my calf injury earlier this year. Once the mileage starts building up during this marathon training plan I’ll catch up in a hurry. So over the last few months I have been doing a bit of reading and wanted to share a few of the titles that I suggest for a good read. Some of them deal with Marathon training but others deal with becoming a better and stronger runner. They do not appear in any order and I’ve just put a little about the book. I don’t want to spoil the read for you. Hope you enjoy and get as much of them as I did.
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall – This book really got me interested in improving my running efficiency. I was hoping the book would go a little more into the bio mechanics of how we were “born to run”, but later I read the book by his coach, Eric Ortan, and that filled in the gaps this book left.
Danny Dreyer does a great job in his book on helping to fix many of the issues we face as runner by improper running techniques. He goes into the whole eastern “CHI” thing a little too much for me. But it was still an informative book.
A great book for someone wanting to train up for their first Marathon. Jeff Galloway recommends the Run, Walk, Run method for completing the 26.2 mile race. I have tried his method on 10 mile runs and was able to keep a great pace. Not sure if I’ll incorporate it for my Marathon but its still a good book.
This was my latest read and I will definitely be going into this one some more. Dabby Abshire is the cofounder of Newton Running and has really done a great job in this book in laying down a path to more efficient and “natural” running. Another book I will be using to help me improve my technique.