encouraging. Covers all aspects of the running process. Overall: This got me started and I continue to dip into it. The training schedules at the back - with spaces to write in are brilliant for a beginner to start a training log andto see the improvement

their schedule, though, and it worked for me. Roisin Dempsey: DEFINITELY RECOMMEND TO A FRIEND Strengths: Covered all the basics for absolute beginners; gear, diet,injuries etc.four day/wk programme is do-able with gently increasing milage per wk until taper

Strengths: If you want to know what actually happens to your body when you train, you need to read this.Hugely detailed and persuasively argued.Challenges many of the basic beliefs/myths on which our training schedules are based.Also has a brilliant section