About this title: Marathon running is a sport that many consider too daunting, better in the viewing than the doing. Olympian Jeff Galloway dispels such notions in a book that takes the mystery -- and misery -- out of distance running. Marathon! shows how just about anyone can run a marathon and, given the right attitude and training, finish the race. Galloway has ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
Description: Fine. 0936070250 Great copy in standard used condition with normal shelf wear, appears to have been perused only. No writing/highlighting. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Date Published: 8/9/2001
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
Description: New. Paperback. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Date Published: 2001-08-09
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
Description: New. Paperback. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Bolinas CA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. 0936070250. Softbound, light wear/soil, crease at spine, small crease at front corners, pgs clean/white; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 209 pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Jeff Galloway's fitness book Galloway's Book on Running has become the standard resource for runners. His new book, Marathon: You Can Do It! , has the programs that will allow almost anyone, at any fitness level, to have fun training for the marathon. Galloway's schedule almost eliminates the chance of injury ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Shelter Pubns
Date Published: 2001-08-01
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780936070254ISBN:0936070250
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"I read Galloway's Marathon as part of my haphazard and slightly short-of-the-mark training for the Amsterdam marathon, my first attempt at that distance. I made it round, and in a respectable enough time (3hr45m), though how much of that was due to the book is difficult to say.
It's a useful read certainly, and one full of useful information. My difficulty with it was one of a kind of bloody-mindedness on my part that probably did my marathon performance no good at all. Galloway strongly advocates taking 'walk breaks' throughout training and even the eventual big event, and this just didn't sit well with me. I think I'm a combination of too eager to go full pelt and too afraid of looking like I can't do it 'properly'.
I came around relatively easily to taking occasional walk breaks in training, and found them to be a real help in extending the distance I was running. The trouble was that I couldn't reconcile myself to the idea that on race day I would take a minute's walk break every 10 minutes. Since the walk break theme recurs throughout the entire book, it tarnished my experience of reading it a little. Of course this isn't to say that the walk break idea is bad; Galloway clearly knows his subject far better than I do. It was just that I, probably through some weakness of will and excess of pride, couldn't bring myself to do as he advised.
Walk breaks aside, there is good stuff about what to eat, avoiding injury, working on speed and all the other stuff you would expect. I found sections on motivation and so-called dirty tricks to get you through the big day a bit too close to the 'I am strong and capable and will succeed' (repeat x5) school of motivational writing for my taste, but maybe I'm just a cynic."
"hopefully this technique will save my knee for years to come. I like that Galloway says anyone can run a marathon, and while reading this I believe he is correct."
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