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Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz

All types of running related books are reviewed by two non-elite track, road and trail runners. Observation and description of running books intended to inform, help and inspire anyone involved or related to running at any level. Whenever possible we chat with the author about the book, but if not then we try to do it justice.If you have been enjoying the podcast and want more, you can follow us on Facebook and Instagram. You can also go to our Buy Me A Coffee website where we have a few more posts:

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67:10

The Ultimate Guide to Parkrun, by Lucy Waterlow

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/12/15

Send us a textThis book is everything you’d want to know about parkrun. How it started, what countries it spread to, how it benefits mental and physical health, and why participants keep coming back to both run and volunteer. The book has 9 chapters: How it started… and how it’s goingMeet the parkrunnersThe high-viz herosA day in the life of a parkrunWhy you should parkrun for your health and well-beingParkrun around the worldTraining, destination and challenge inspiration The futur...

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BONUS TRACK: Alan and Liz's Fall Marathon Recap

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/12/07

Send us a textFor those who wanted to hear about it, we decided to tell you about our most recent sub-3-hour marathon attempt in this bonus episode. For our listeners we explain what plan we were using and the history we have with following the same plan in the past, but most of this episode is about the result of our marathons.The race we did was the Wineglass marathon in Corning, NY. In case you're interested in knowing more about the race, here is their website: https://www.wineglassm...

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57:42

Built To Run, by Matthew Silver

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/12/01

Send us a textBuilt to Run is a book to help runners improve form, mobility and strength so that they can run injury free more often… because we all know we’ll eventually get some kind of niggle, but the idea is that we’re not sidelined for months at a time. The book has 8 chapters, starting with an explanation of your body as a system, moving on to training mobility and strength, and ending with breathing (yes, we can actually train that!) and common running injuries.Dr. Matthew Silver is a ...

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86:06

Running Through the Dark, by Jen Scotney

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/11/15

Send us a textUltrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK’s toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take the record as the fastest woman to do so. But that didn’t happen. Nothing went according to plan. The Jen the world knew was a successful lawyer and running coach – all photoshoots and finish-line smiles – but the truth was much...

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106:10

Running From Tragedy by Michael Salsbury

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/11/01

Send us a textRunning From Tragedy is Michael Salsbury’s family story and how running, in the end, helped lessen the burden of three life changing events. Michael met the love of his life when he decided to take a break from his career in the financial industry to work at Club Med for a few months. Little did they know that they were both carriers of an ultra-rare genetic mutation that ended up taking the lives of three children before they were old enough to eat solid food.Michael was born a...

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70:12

Good for a Girl, by Lauren Fleshman

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/10/15

Send us a textGood For A Girl by Lauren Fleshman is the story of Lauren's life and experience in professional running. Running seemed straight forward when she was growing up, you work hard and you get the reward, but women don't have the same performance trajectory as men when going through puberty. Women often plateau as they get used to their "new body" after puberty, but this comes at an inconvenient time in college when coaches are picking top performers for scholarships and want their t...

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79:41

Running Challenges, by Keri Wallace

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/10/01

Send us a textRunning Challenges, by Keri Wallace, is like a tour guide for Trail running in the UK. It features 100 of the best trail, fell and mountain runs in England, Scotland and Wales, and those three countries make up the three sections of the book. There is something for everyone with the shortest challenges being 5k parkruns and the longest ones going over 100k. Keri Wallace is a mountain runner, running guide for Girls on Hills (which she also founded), rock climber and freelan...

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88:38

Trails and Tribulations, by Susie Chan

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/09/15

Send us a textTrails and Tribulations is Susie Chan's memoire. She tells us a little about her life before running, including some pretty big life events, how she started running, and some of her very very long runs. A few of the races that Susie did and talks about include: Marathon de Sables (which she ran more than once!): A self-supported, multi-day, stage race through the dessert. The Jungle Ultra: Another self-supported, multi-day, stage race… this time through the jungle.&nbs...

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How to Run the Perfect Race, by Matt Fitzgerald

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/09/01

Send us a textHow To Run The Perfect Race is a book all about pacing. The book is divided into two sections:Section 1: All about how to master pacingSection 2: RPE based training plans for your next 5k, 10k, half-marathon and marathon.Pacing isn’t about having an even pace on your Garmin. It’s about having an even effort which takes into account things like terrain and weather conditions on race day. Pacing may sound easy but most of us aren’t very good at it (and definitely not as good as th...

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LOST: The Work That Goes Unseen, published by Ciele

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/08/15

Send us a Text Message.In this episode of Running Book Reviews, we had the pleasure of chatting with Tim Rossi, founder of The Lost Boys running club in New York, about a book he helped bring to life in collaboration with Ciele and Maurten. We talk about the book, the Lost Boys Club, and how long it took to finish the book. Despite there not being a lot of writing in the book, the time it took to put together was just as long (if not longer) than most traditional books and Tim explains why.LO...

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Running Rewired 2nd Edition, by Jay Dicharry

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/08/01

Send us a Text Message.If you're thinking that you've heard us talk about Running Rewired, it's because we read the original version which came out in 2017 and it was featured in one of the first episodes we did in 2020. Well the second edition is out now and we had the pleasure of speaking with authir Jay Dicharry in this episode!Running Rewired is about strength training specifically for runners. The first 4 chapters are dedicated to the rationale. They talk about “broken wiring”, “mobility...

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BONUS TRACK: Alan and Liz's Summer Training Plans

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/07/15

Send us a Text Message.So we know it's a bonus episode and not our usual book dedicated episode, but we need more time to line up our guests and didn't want to leave our listeners without anything to listen to. We hope that we can earn your forgiveness with some of the episodes that are coming in the future.In this bonus episode we talk about our plan for marathon training which we'll be starting on the day this episode drops, July 15th, 2024… but before we get to that, there is some chat tha...

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105:50

Smart Running, by Jen and Sim Benson

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/07/01

Send us a Text Message.Join us for this wonderful conversation with Jen and Sim about all things running! Their fantastic book, Smart Running, is packed with useful information about a diverse range of topics and we only covered a few of them in our chat. The 19 chapters of this book are divided into 6 parts:Our bodies and SystemsBecoming a resilient runningMental skills for runnersRaces, challenges and adventuresPracticalitiesTraining plans and workoutsHere is a little bit about Jen an...

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106:32

Alan and Liz's Running Chatter and Rundown on the...

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/06/15

Send us a Text Message.Here we are again! We can't believe we've read another 10 books already... and actually it's been more than 10 books... This might be a long episode (unless Alan did some aggressive editing) because when we start talking about books, we just can't stop. You don't know it, but you're lucky that this episode wasn't 3 hours long! Good thing Liz needed to get to work. Neither of us were really watching the time apparently...Here are the books we chat about in this epi...

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83:58

The Examined Run, by Sabrina Little

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/06/01

Send us a Text Message.We have a fantastic conversation with author Sabrina Little, about her new book, The Examined Run. In this chat we talk about ethics and role of virtues and vices in running. The Examined Run discusses the ethics of sport, specifically the sport of running, through the lens of virtue ethics. As with any discussion of ethics, this one has many angles and nuances, and could have easily been a trilogy of books. The book is divided into 9 chapters. It starts with an introdu...

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63:15

The Race To Be Myself, by Caster Semenya

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/05/15

Send us a Text Message.The Race to Be Myself is a 4 part memoire where Caster talks about:The beginning: how she grew up, how she liked to hang out with boys and play sports, and what happened in puberty. The rise: How she got into running and eventually decided to be more serious about training. She also talks about getting more serious about school because she wanted to sun with for a university where she could have access to coaches and other resources that would help her be a better ...

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77:13

Run Through by SB Stone

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/05/01

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BONUS TRACK: Boston Marathon Experience

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/04/28

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80:16

All In Stride, by Johanna Garton

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/04/15

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The Boston Marathon Handbook, by Marc W. Pollina

Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz ·

2024/04/01

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