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Marathon Running: From Beginning to Elite Paperback – 9 April 2008

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Written by Britain's most successful marathon runner of the 1990s, this invaluable guide will help you get the most from your distance training. From the complete beginner enchanted by the challenge of the London Marathon, to the experienced runner wishing to improve on racing strategy, its authoritative pages reveal a wealth of information on: structuring an effective build-up and taper training harder without doing too much improving your endurance and pace judgement producing your best on race-day. The new edition is in full colour, making for easier navigation and bringing the action photography to life. The text has been fully updated to take account of the latest developments in running science and programme design, plus more insights from Richard and other leading runners. This new edition has been fully updated with the latest training

Print length

224 pages
Language

English
Publisher

A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Publication date

9 April 2008
Dimensions

15.6 x 1.3 x 23.4 cm
ISBN-10

0713688521
ISBN-13

978-0713688528
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"This book contains everything you need to know about running a marathon and if you're thinking of taking on 26.2 miles, this really will be a vital tool"
-- Women's Fitness (August 2008)

"This book tackles all areas of preparation for a marathon, both mental and physical, and is a thoroughly enjoyable and motivating read" -- Women's Fitness (August 2008)

About the Author

Richard Nerurkar consistently finished among the top ten runners in the London Marathon, Olympics, World and European Championships in the 1990s. He commentates for the BBC at various events, and regularly advises runners about marathon training. Currently based in Ethiopia, he is involved with the organisation of the Great Ethiopian Run.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ A & C Black Publishers Ltd; 3rd edition (9 April 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0713688521
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0713688528
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.3 x 23.4 cm

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Mark W

Great marathon training book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 February 2012

I found this a very good marathon training book, informative with very very good training plans towards the back of the book. Well worth the money. Buy it now!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 January 2003

This book is an excellent insight into the challenge of 26.2
The schedules at the back are good to follow and set out well.
It is also good to read Richard's experiences - although the parts where he jets off for warm weather training are pure fantasy for the average club runner !
Bong Bong Bong start knocking out the miles

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G. Hendrie

Thorough but perhaps not the best option for a beginner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 January 2011

I bought this hoping to gain an insight into the fabled Marathon from one of GBs greatest.

Sadly, I found the book overly busy and seemed to cater more for the serious athlete than the overweight, infrequent runner like myself seeking inspiration and motivation. If you are a commited runner, perhaps at club level or better, I have no doubts this book will provide a valuable insight into training for and racing the Marathon. Regular recreational runners may be able to extract something out of it though you may need to augment the 12 week training plans to suit. If however you are an absolute beginner or a complete newbie to the distance (New Years resolution perhaps?!!) then perhaps THE NON-RUNNERS MARATHON TRAINER by David Whitsett may be a better option.

To conclude, a lot of info crammed into this which I felt would be of more value to the serious types more so than the beginner.

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The best I've found so far.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 January 2002

This is the best Marathon specific running book I've seen. I had already bought '4 Months to A 4 Hour Marathon', but was not particulaly impressed with it - it was maybe slightly too basic at times, and I found the training schedules were different from any others I'd seen in magazines or web-sites.
This is a much better book, which gives more useful advice from fairly basic to the absolute extreme of international level (mostly Richard's own experiences). Whilst some of the elite advice won't be of much use to mere mortals, it is still quite interesting to read how the best train (150 miles a week?!). This almost makes it a cross between training advice and story telling of elite athlete's experiences.
Richard Nerurkar has also got an easy to understand, relaxed style of writing which makes this very easy to read.

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stuartpenname

Why no training pace information

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 August 2012

As others have said this is no bible for a Marathon runner, of any level really . What did it for me was the total lack of pace information for any of the longer training runs.
None of the schedules include pace info .
I expected to see that if i was training for a sub 2.45 marathon that my pace on the long Sunday run should be .............?
So the book gives you the mileage and types of training for each day and leaves you to work out the rest .

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Steve

Didn't get a lot out of it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2012

As a committed (albeit far from being elite) runner training for my first marathon, I have to say I didn't get a lot out of this book. It falls half way inbetween being guidance for runners and being a book of anecdotes and details of what elite marathoners do.

I found the layout and format to be awkward, with dull stories written by any old Tom, Dick or Harry inserted in random locations.

If you're a fairly new runner considering doing a marathon, then maybe this book will provide you with some useful motivation. But for somebody in my position, I'm afraid I can't recommend it.

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