How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before
Training tips for record-breaking distance running from the author of 4 Months to a 4-Hour Marathon.

The only running book targeted specifically to help runners set a personal record, this indispensable guide offers specific training programs for each of the four most popular race distances: 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. It also includes a common-sense discussion of the training process (a time-tested, three-pronged approach), information on everything runners need to know from day one to crossing the finish line, plus race-day strategies to squeeze out precious minutes and seconds from that finish line clock.

How to Run a Personal Record features a 32-page training log where the reader can log their progress through the 16-week training phase.
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How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before
Training tips for record-breaking distance running from the author of 4 Months to a 4-Hour Marathon.

The only running book targeted specifically to help runners set a personal record, this indispensable guide offers specific training programs for each of the four most popular race distances: 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. It also includes a common-sense discussion of the training process (a time-tested, three-pronged approach), information on everything runners need to know from day one to crossing the finish line, plus race-day strategies to squeeze out precious minutes and seconds from that finish line clock.

How to Run a Personal Record features a 32-page training log where the reader can log their progress through the 16-week training phase.
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How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before

How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before

by Dave Kuehls
How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before

How to Run a Personal Record: Cover the Ground in Front of You Faster Than Ever Before

by Dave Kuehls

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Overview

Training tips for record-breaking distance running from the author of 4 Months to a 4-Hour Marathon.

The only running book targeted specifically to help runners set a personal record, this indispensable guide offers specific training programs for each of the four most popular race distances: 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. It also includes a common-sense discussion of the training process (a time-tested, three-pronged approach), information on everything runners need to know from day one to crossing the finish line, plus race-day strategies to squeeze out precious minutes and seconds from that finish line clock.

How to Run a Personal Record features a 32-page training log where the reader can log their progress through the 16-week training phase.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440661877
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/06/2009
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dave Kuehls is a contributing editor for Runner’s World, the world’s largest running magazine. He has also written for Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health, GQ, and ESPN magazine. His fastest marathon is 2:57.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Are You Ready to Run a Personal Record? 1

2 How to Pick a PR Goal 5

3 How to Train for a PR 9

4 Other Things You Need to Know to PR 27

5 More Things You Need to Know to PR 41

6 The PR Schedules 57

The 5K 59

The 10K 70

The Half Marathon 81

The Marathon 92

7 The Training Log 103

8 Race Week and Beyond 139

Acknowledgments 155

Index 157

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