Customer Reviews

Marathon

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I picked up this book on the advice of a friend who had done the Houston Marathon the previous year and heard Jeff's seminar on running Marathons. He felt Jeff had given him so much good advice that enabled him to have success in his race thathis book would benefit me.

Well, I must say it did. I went out and had a painless, great day in my first 26.2 mile race and I attribute most of it to jeff's training schedule and his run a mile/walk a minute strategy that will actually improve your time instead of what you might think. I am living proof and this book got me through it.

I highly recommend this boof for a first time marathoner, it answers many of the questions you may have going in about diet, water, sports drinks, rest, anxiety, what to do if....., etc..

Definitely a book you can trust in and use to make your race the best it can be.

There's a lot of really good advice on marathon preparation here. Unfortunately, Galloway interweaves the meat of the book with the excruciating story of a fictitious band of infantile, narcissistic runners who are getting ready to run a marathon themselves.

This would be a mere annoyance if it didn't make finding the running advice a lot more difficult. The reader is forced to wade through the stupefying adventures of Suzi, Tom etc in order to pick out the many kernels of running wisdom.

Stick to the facts, Jeff!

Two members of my family have read and used this book as a training guide for their first marathon in 1996. Now, seven marathons later, they still recommed it highly to friends. Happy runnning!

A great, common sense approach to marathon training.

The charactors' story through out the book takes what could be rather dry reading and makes it fun.

I highly recommend it!

If you wish to spend your time reading a book about running that is virtually worthless to a runner, this is the book for you. The dramatic scenarios are, at best, uninformative and, at worst, absolutely inane. All of this from a writer who has made significant contributions to the literature of running in the past--must've just temporarily run out of anything useful to say. I hope to see a return to the previous level of quality in future endeavors.