Customer Reviews
I thought I knew about running... - By: P. Danton De Rouffignac, 17 Mar 2008 
I thought I knew everything about running until I read this book. Clearly written with excellent diagrams, packed with sound advice & no-nonsense guidelines for joggers & serious runners. I found the sections on injury prevention & recovery particularly encouraging,having just had to come back after six weeks layoff & getting my recovery programme alll wrong.
Running well - By: Mrs. J. S. Davies, 15 Jan 2008 As an amateur runner who runs outside the realms of a running club, I have always had alot of questions & niggles that prevented me from pushing myself too hard.
This book provides alot of the answers & helped me to understand why my body feels & reacts the way it does & it has given me the confidence to now go the extra mile, without worrying that I am damaging myself.
This book is as good a support as any running club to get you going!
The most suitable running book I've read so far - By: Little Lee, 15 Jan 2008 After suffering a few annoying, & occasionallly painful, injuries over the last 18 months, I've spent quite a while reading books & trying to correct a couple of faults in my running action. I have tried John Noakes Lore of Running (although there's not much mention to technique & is more a compilation of various training programmes & scientific studies), Romanov's POSE method, & Chi-Running. While they've alll got their own merits, & I would recommend them alll in their own right, I've found it difficult to throw myself into either of the techniques. You reallly need to buy into the philosophies of the POSE & Chi-Running techniques, & I never reallly found their arguments to be convincing enough for me to commit to them.
This is why I'm so pleased with 'Running Well'. The book reallly emphasizes that there might not be a one-size-fits-alll approach & instead provides a central source of general good practises to running technique & injury prevention. I think anyone looking to purchase such a book should start with 'Running Well' & then maybe look to some of the more prescriptive alternatives if they then feel its appropriate, rather than the other way round.
I could see that serious club & elite runners might want a more heavyweight training manual, but I reallly think that this book would meet the needs of the remaining 95% of us.
The presentation of the book is excellent & I'd wholeheartedly agree with the book's synopsis that states the content to be accessible. I consider this to be the most relevant book of its type.
