Open Road's The Smart Runner's Handbook

By Matt Greenwald

Book Overview

Features advice for beginning, intermediate, and advanced runners, and discusses attire, training, injuries, and diet. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883323355
• ISBN13: 9781883323356
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Open Road
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Open Road's The Smart Runner's Handbook

This book helped me train for my first marathon in 1997... and several after. It provides three suggested-training schedules, depending on goals and training level, for 10K & marathons. Easy to follow, easy to read. Excellent starting point for new runners. Have read other books by "more famous" authors, but none of their suggested training schedules gave me the confidence I obtained by using this book. (Qualified for Boston every time!!) Future editions could be improved by adding a chapter on recovery following the marathon.

Well-written guide for needy runners, even fat ones.

I've been running for a few years to keep the fat off my hips and was pleased to stumble across this great running guide. I must say that i had been doing quite a bit wrong. Now that i've read this book, I've lost even more weight and am just lucky that the writer didn't charge by the pound.

This book contains great running advice

I've been running for only a year, but have really improved since adopting the advice contained in this book. It is also reasonably priced. I recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their running experience.

The most helpful running book ever!

I picked up this book on a whim, and have found it to be the most helpful, inspirational book on running ever. I am 3 months pregnant and the information for pregnant women was unparalleled. I highly recommend this book for anyone though. The information is useful, the book is concise and the tone is enjoyable. Two thumbs up!

Graet book, full of information

This book was my first running book. For $10 it is a great buy. It is full of information, especially training tips for a marathon. It doesn't have much on injuries or nutrition but it is only a small book. I recommend it...