Read the guide in the 5 days I wasn't running :/. Easy read, entertaining, but very repetitive. Didn't get any useful facts or knowledge out of the book.
The author does not give any facts about her height or weight and stresses the fact that she was a true couch potato who ate Cheetos and watched tv all the time. Also, she repeats the fact that she avoided walking or running at all times and took her car to work which was a couple of blocks away from her home. Makes me wonder - had she really been one with no movement at all, wouldn't she have been obese? And would it have been possible for her to run 11 miles at start of week 5? There was no mention of the speeds at which she ran. Her running speeds, her walking speeds, her speeds when she started the training, her speeds at various weeks, nothing, zilch. Another thing which was repeated was to eat as many carbs as you want when you are training for a marathon and you won't gain a pound. Unfortunately, I started implementing the eating part without the running part ;)
To be fair, there were a some important facts like hit your heels before the balls of your feet, stretch (there are some stretching exercises given), keep urself well hydrated and fed. Other than that if somebody is looking for useful, helpful serious information, she is going to be disappointed.
Personally, I am hoping that like the other things exaggerated in the book, the description of the actual marathon is exaggerated too. The way she describes her running experience and the marathon in terms of injuries scares me. She mentions her bad knee at various times, but other than that provides no details of the injury whatsoever. Though the description of the actual marathon was funny at times (I can't say that about the whole book, or maybe I just have a bad sense of humor :( , or maybe the fun went away with jokes being repeated), I am worried about the various injuries she describes.
All in all, a quick, light, sometimes funny read about the training experience of a marathoner.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Non-Runner's Marathon guide for Women - Review
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With proper training you hopefully will not encounter any injuries along the way. I disagree with the hell-striking part, since that part of the foot was made to take the impact and can lead to knee injuries. Landing on the mid-foot is the preferred method. Each person brings a different perspective to each marathon.
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