Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach

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Do you want to run faster? Are you trying to peak for a particular race? Would you like to find your true running potential? Brad Hudson, former Olympic Trials marathoner and current coach to Olympians like Dathan Ritzenhein, will show you the way in this practical, reader-friendly guide. Hudson is the most innovative running coach to come along in a generation. Until now, only a handful of elite athletes have been able to benefit from his methods. Now Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon shows all runners how to coach themselves as confidently and effectively as Brad coaches his world-class athletes. Becoming your own best coach is the ticket to running faster at any distance.
First you will learn to assess your abilities. Then you’ll learn how to devise a training program specifically geared to you. Filled with easy-to-follow sample training programs for distances ranging from the 5K to the marathon and abilities ranging from novice to advanced, Run Faster is the cutting-edge guide for optimal performance.
With Hudson’s guidance, you can train smarter and more effectively—and avoid injury. And you’ll soon be running faster than you ever thought possible!

What Customers Say About Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach:

This book serves as a great foundation for developing a knowledge of running physiology. I think this a very good book.

I have just started reading this book, but it is just what I was looking for to increase my speed and endurance in 5K's and 10K's. It has many charts and templates that will help me reach my goals in a reasonable timeline and without unnecessary injuries. Just what I have been looking for.

Even if I enlarge the charts, the text in the chart is just illegible. I have no issues with the book itself. However, in the Kindle version, the charts detailing the marathon plans are essentially impossible to read. This makes the book kind of useless to me. I want to follow these plans, but if I can't read them or otherwise copy them to any other format, what am I to do.

and you're just after someone to tell you exactly what to do, and when to do it. If you're after a training guide based on solid science, that requires you to think a bit about your running. you're better off buying a running magazine or just downloading a training program from some website.As others have said, this book is concise, well-written, and smart. that will teach you the principles of running physiology, so you actually understand WHY you're doing your workouts. you'll love this book.If you just want a dumbed-down training program (think "5 easy steps to your fastest-ever 5K."). Hudson's methodology makes perfect sense, and because he insists you adapt his methods to suit yourself, it forces you to at least attempt to create for yourself a tailored program.More than any book on the subject I've read, this is as close to having a real living, breathing actual in-the-flesh coach as you can get. Obviously not as good, but if you enjoy the challenge of racing as a self-coached athlete, this book is a must.

Intuitive, excellent work. Take advantage of Brad Hudson's years of experience in research and application of running methodology and technique and directly apply it to your running. Warning, not for the casual "I wanna finish a marathon someday" crowd, this is real and it works.Big negative on Kindle is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to read the workout charts at the end of the book. Would appreciate if anyone can provide a link to those charts online.