ENDURANCE BOOK RUNNING PROFESSIONAL
As professional running coach put it, ultras (and marathons for that matter) are eating contests with some running in-between. Otherwise you “hit the wall,” as runners like to say. But beyond that your energy reserves get depleted and you need to make sure you provide enough nutrition to keep going. Anything shorter and you largely have enough stored fuel in your body to maintain yourself through upwards of 2 hours of an endurance workout or race. The marathon and beyond adds an additional caveat to running training and that’s fueling. You need to learn to run at the target pace for the event. You might call this third goal, race pace training. These combined ends of the running training spectrum (endurance and speedwork) then should be applied toward the third key element of training and that’s training toward your specific endurance or event goal. You might call this your training intensity distribution or “training polarization.” These first two elements also need to be properly managed, distributed and targeted according to your recovery, adaption and goals. The majority of research and writings about running point towards the fact that you have to slowly build up volume (run a lot of miles) and challenge yourself regularly to run faster (run for speed). To train smart and to effectively improve, you need to do three things: build an endurance base, get faster, and target your goal pace. If you aren’t getting the right balance of nutrition, sleep and stress, your training will suffer. You also need to eat right, sleep enough and manage your stress. You need challenges, assessments and occasional races to sharpen and push yourself. To avoid acute and chronic injuries, your training plan needs to be progressive, cycling through phases of progressive overload and recovery. You need to improve your mobility, your strength and even your mind. It takes years of training to develop the neurological and biomechanical capacities to become a better runner. One of biggest overarching themes I’ve learned from reading (and watching videos and running myself) about running and endurance is that improvement is a slow process for any new runner. I wrote about my first running steps in A Beginner’s Journey Training to Run 5K, and I recently chronicled my first marathon in Western China in post on entitled “Don’t Turn Left at 24km.” I’m also a tracker and documentary writer. I’d call myself a “competitive amateur runner,” since running for me is not simply about good health anymore it’s about getting better. One Lesson: Train for Endurance, Speed and Target Pace I will provide a short summary, review and rating of six more books.īefore jumping into my specific book reviews, I first wanted to share a few broad lessons I’ve acquired. In this post, we will look at several recent books I’ve read about running and endurance training.
This post is a followup on my previous post, “ Some Great Books on Running,” where I reviewed nine other books on running. I read a lot and I find long-form books to be one of the best ways to learn. Not surprisingly, there are two parts to my journey to becoming a better running: running and reading. As an obsessive autodidact, reading is a big part of how I learn. I’ve read quite a lot of books on running. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.” -Once a Runner
“In mind’s special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock.
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