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The Complete Runner's Day-By-Day Log and Calendar 2000

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I am a runner and I ran 4 marathons in 1999. I couldn't live without this book. I log everything so I can read back and check the mileage on my shoes 4 replacement, when an injury might have started, what might have caused it etc. The daily quotes are thought provoking some mornings and funny others. It is a nice easy way to keep motivated and keep track of where you are heading without being a slave to a diary. Just enough room for a quick entry.

It was the best one in this century, might as well stay the best for 2000! Concise, easy to use, and filled with pithy, running-related quotes. Have used it exclusively for my log keeping for over a decade now. Bonus: each month features an essay by the author giving us a glimpse into his running life and how he views the world.

I went last year without this runners diary and things just were not the same. I love the lay-out and the inspirational messages and pictures are great.

"The Complete Runner's Day-By-Day Log and 2003 Calendar" has as its greatest strength the ability to encourage the committed runner. This doesn't mean the fast runner, or the experienced runner, but it does mean the runner who intends to stay on the path of running fitness with consistency.

How will you, the committed runner, be encouraged? First and foremost, by the recording and tracking of your workouts. It isn't complicated. There are spots to write down the important aspects of your run. While you could do this in a spreadsheet like Excel (which I also do), what you'll find here is an attractive layout. Instead of looking at he clinical cells of a computer program, you get to see things in a comfortable format.

The log will help you consider the value of each run, and realize the hard work you are doing is paying off. Should you feel burned out, you can look back and see what might have caused it. Over-training? Bad weather? Too many miles? The log will show you.

The charts of times, paces, and all of that you probably have in another running book. That's great, but this is handy to have together with your own times. Comparisons are more easily made.

Likewise handy are the tips, but, again, if you've ever read books like "Road Racing for Serious Runners" or "The Competitive Runner's Handbook."

The graphics are the quality you expect from Runner's World magazine. Good stuff.

If you like the pithy quotes sprinkled throughout, you'll love "The Quotable Runner: Great Moments of Wisdom, Inspiration, Wrongheadedness, and Humor."

I fully recommend "Complete Runner's Day-By-Day Log."

Anthony Trendl

For those of us who grew up with this diary, the intro for the 2000 was just for you & a friend,right? We can all relate. The month to month commentary is exactly how it is, like the gravy train, or sunshine or...all of it! My friend, Darcy has all but one of the books written since the first in 1978, even the blue-covered edition. I'm missing 4. This runner's log has to be part of every regular runner's routine.

The reason I love this book is for its simplicity. Day-by-day, there's nowhere to hide your progress -- or lack of it. Completing the daily page is my little reward for making it through a workout, because I'm not one of those fitness types who does it for fun.

This is one of the best (if not the best) calendars I have ever owned (way better than that ridiculous cat loooover calendar I bought in an effort to placate my irascible wife). John Jerome's calendar is particularly valuable for all the logs provided where you can tally all the miles you run, your times, your splits, and other comments (as an example, my entry for January 1, 2003: Finished the annual Hangover Classic 10K. 6.2 miles, 62 minutes, threw up twice. Wish I hadn't had those last two bottles of cheap champagne. Next year will be different). Jerome also offers words of encouragement, tips, and many pithy quotes (some well known, some more obscure). This log book/calendar comes in spiral format (up/down) and is slightly larger than typical desktop flip calendars. A great way for marking time!