Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6571 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 285 pages

Customer Reviews

Revolutionise your running
Very accessible book. You can study running physiology in depth, or skip all that and go straight to the schedules. There are schedules from absolute beginner, through all track & road distances up to elite marathoner. The best bit; they make sense and they WORK - I took 5 mins off my half-marathon time this season. Read this book and you'll wonder how you ever coped without knowing your VDOT.
Only four stars as Daniels does not include anything on the specific benefits of hill training, but I guess you can't have it all.

The running book I always return to
I have read many books on running over the years but Jack Daniels' Running Formula is the one book I always return to. Daniels lays out clear and simple rules for setting training paces and volumes. I followed his formula and saw a substantial improvement in my times without training very hard. His most important contribution is the VDOT scale for defining aerobic fitness and I regularly look up his VDOT tables in the book to determine my VDOT value based on race or a training session. Once you know your VDOT you can then look up your training paces for marathon pace, tempo pace, 5K pace, and mile pace. I have used these table with great success as a coach to set training intensities for the athletes under my supervision and in the London Marathon they went on to run fast times, far above what they originally hoped for. In my mind, there is no more important book on my bookshelf and I cannot recommend this book too highly.

A recreational and serious runners must have.
Best book on running I've seen. Though I'm familiar with technical exercise physiology, many runners are not. This books makes building a program simple for everyone. Kudos.