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Run Your Best Marathon: Your trusted guide to training and racing better

Run Your Best Marathon: Your trusted guide to training and racing better

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Run Your Best Marathon is a comprehensive training manual for long-distance runners, offering six training plans, essential information, and advice on how to train, race, eat, and recover. It is written by running coach Sam Murphy, who provides a runner-centered approach to help runners prepare for and race their chosen marathon to the best of their ability.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC


Drawing on decades of running and coaching experience, Murphy provides a current resource that long-distance runners are sure to return to time and again. — Booklist

Learn how to run your best marathon and get the most out of your training. There's no shortage of advice out there on how to train for a marathon, and yet it can be hard to know what will work best for you.

Choose from six training plans, each pitched at a different level of mileage, intensity, and experience. The plans are backed up by a wealth of essential information and advice on how to train, race, eat, and recover.

Learn how to:

- assess yourself and set a realistic goal
- adjust your diet to optimize training and recovery
- get your brain onside to resist fatigue and overcome discomfort
- stay healthy during training and respond to injuries
- master the skill of racing.

Run Your Best Marathon is here to change all that with the expertise of running coach Sam Murphy. Whether you're looking to step up to the marathon for the first time or to better previous performances over the distance, Sam's runner-centered approach will help you prepare for and race your chosen marathon to the best of your ability.

Weight: 364g
Dimension: 152 x 234 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472989529

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