Customer Reviews

Jeff Galloway's Training Journal

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Lot a good things about Jeff's training program. I've found it
very helpfull over the last year so decided to pick up this journal. Big mistake. While it's got it's good points; I especially like the training programs, time predictors,
sensible layout for daily entries, and lots of room in the back for notes, it has one fatal flaw. Contrary to the claim on the back cover that there are "daily entries for one year", you will find by the end of October you're using those empty note pages because you've run out of pre-printed log pages.

No journal, no matter how good, that doesn't have space for a full year doesn't pass my minimums. The fact that the cover lies
I find inexcusable. Get the Runner's World Training Diary, it's got most everything this book has plus a full year's worth of entry space, and it's [...] less [money].

I followed the Galloway training program for my first marathon. I started using the training journal as I began training for my second marathon. I am able to record my progress and make sure I stay on track. The motivational quotes each week push me along and I often copy them into emails that I send to my fellow training partners. The book is organized so that you can begin any week and write in the dates. Also helpful are the pacing charts at the end of the book. I like to be able to look back at previous weeks and map my progress. I always write how I felt during the runs or other workouts and who I ran or trained with. It helps me to recognize patterns in my workouts. I plan to purchase another training journal after the Disney marathon to continue monitoring my success with running.

The format is good and there is plenty of space. The bad news is that there are not enough pages for an entire years' worth of entries -- that is really bad. So an otherwise good journal has a serious flaw. Moreover, the race prediction tables are both incomplete and inaccurate (including spelling errors -- maratime rather than marathon.) The book is more expensive than similar products.

This is my 5th yr running and using Jeffs training manuel. It is not only easy to use the information but it is useful both in what he provides and what I write daily. In addition to the reguested info I also keep track of all my other X-training sports and the mileage on all my running shoes as there is ample space for each day to do so.

I used this journal while training for a marathon (I was running on a Jeff Galloway team). It's the perfect journal for training and you can fill each day out quick and easy. I found it to be a huge encouragement as I would look back on days when I felt great, or didn't. Great for anyone in training.

Journal was "brand new," just as advertised. And it arrived earlier than I was told! Can't get any better than this!

I like this training journal even though its designed for runners
and I am a fitness walker and relatively new competitive race-walker. This journal can also be used for walkers. I especially like the pages devoted to monitoring your resting heart
rate when you first wake up in the morning for one year. It will
offer some indication of your aerobic fitness progress and if your
resting heart rate goes up 5% or more from one day to the next it usually means you are stressed or over training and need to take a day off from training and rest.

Keep Walking or Running!

Al Moore

This is a great journal. I run daily and it helped so much to establish good habits of keeping track of things.