Essential Guide to Training for Your First Marathon [Kindle Edition]

Joe Donovan (Author)

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Product Description

The running of a marathon is a very special accomplishment. At 26.2 miles, the marathon distance seems vastly out of reach for most runners. In this book, Joe Donovan prepares you mentally and physically for the challenge and helps you condition and train for your first marathon. With his advice and encouragement, you, too, will learn how amazing it feels to finish a marathon.

There are many books on the market that explain how to train for a marathon. This book is no exception; however, it offers more. This book explains how to get started with your running, how to purchase gear, how to select a marathon, how to train for and otherwise prepare for a marathon, even including what to eat. It also explain what to expect before, during and after your race, as well as how to stay healthy during the whole process.

What makes this book unique is that it covers topics that every other book on the market neglects: the emotional, spiritual and mental aspects of the marathon.

About the Author

Joe Donovan is a business owner, father, husband, runner and cyclist. Since running his first marathon in 1999, Joe has run three additional marathons and has completed a triathlon and several bicycle races. He is currently training for a long distance mountain bike race and maintains the website, MarathonMethod.com. Joe and his family live in Wisconsin.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 306 KB
• Print Length: 112 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 098216260X
• Publisher: JulianJohn Publishing (February 13, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001T9NJ0E
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,206 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Program and Motivation, April 20, 2009

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Chrysti (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Essential Guide To Training For Your First Marathon (Paperback)

This is a well written and inspirational program, not as intimidating as some of the marathon guides out there. I am a first time marathoner, and frankly, it's a bit intimidating to read the "how-to's" from world record holding runners, or gazillion marathon under their belts pro runners. In my mind, I'm not them, I can't do what they do, and (right or wrong) in my mind they have never started from as far behind the eight ball as I am. It's easier for me to follow a program (probably the exact same program) written by a real person, not an elite athelete. Someone who has kids, a life, mental roadblocks, all the flaws that keep most of us from acheiving olympic glory. The program is tough, but it is inspirational, too. This book has turned the idea of running a marathon into something that would be cool to do someday if I could ever get into that kind of shape, into something I am doing, I can do, and have already signed up for. Thanks Joe Donovan!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, great inspiration, May 2, 2009

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Wilver (Brush Prairie, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Guide To Training For Your First Marathon (Paperback)

This is a very good book that not only lays out how to prepare and run your first marathon but also provides insights on how to achieve other goals in life. The book covers everything you need to know and does so in a way that psychs you up so that you want to run. There are also a number of great tips so that your first race won't be so frightening. This was a book that I really enjoyed reading.