Improve your racing performance through multispeed training! This training plan is based on solid science, and its physiological basis is clearly explained and incorporated into a running program that produces maximum results and reduces the risk of injury. In Road Racing for Serious Runners, Pete Pfitzinger - a world-class marathoner, distance running coach and exercise physiologist - tells you how to get the most out of your limited training time. Pfitzinger teams up with former Running Times editor-in-chief Scott Douglas to present a training and racing plan that will help you excel in the full spectrum of road racing distances. You will learn how to:design a week-by-week training program, determine the right pace to run during speed workouts, get the most out of long runs, taper training before an important race, detect and avoid staleness and injury, determine the best strategy for each race, and achieve the optimal mental state to train and race.Included with each of five training schedules are racing tactics, mental tips, and lessons from world-class runners.

1999. 189 pages.

Once you commit to running a marathon, you need to start preparing for it-mentally and physically. Marathon Training presents three separate 100-day training programs to maximize your efforts. A prolific writer, coach and runner, author Joe Henderson has designed daily log pages to help you monitor all the variables that affect training, including weather and course conditions; training effectiveness; mental and physical benchmarks; and time, distance and pace goals. Each day, as you fill out your log page, Henderson's sage advice and "thought for the day" will give you a greater understanding of, and a deeper commitment to, your goal of running a marathon. Use Marathon Training as you would a personal coach: to motivate, inform, and inspire you through 91 days of marathon training and nine days of post-race recovery.

2004. 250 pages.