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Any runner can tell you that the sport isn’t just about churning out miles day in and day out. Runners have a passion, dedication, and desire to go faster, longer, and farther. Now, The Art of Running Faster provides you with a new approach to running, achieving your goals and setting your personal best.
Whether you’re old or young, new to the sport or an experienced marathoner, this guide will change how you run and the results you achieve. The Art of Running Faster challenges the stereotypes, removes the doubts and erases the self-imposed limitations by prescribing not only what to do but also how to do it. Inside, you will learn how to
•overcome the obstacles that prevent you from running faster, more comfortably, and with greater focus;
•rethink conventional training methods, listen to your body, and challenge traditional running ‘norms’;
•customize your training program to emphasize the development of speed, strength, and stamina;
•shift gears, reach that next level of performance, and blow past the competition.
In this one-of-a-kind guide, former world-class runner Julian Goater shares his experiences, insights and advice for better, more efficient and faster running.
Much more than training tips and motivational stories, The Art of Running Faster is your guide to improved technique and optimal performance. Let Julian Goater show you a new way to run faster, farther and longer.
- Sales Rank: #1065552 in Books
- Brand: Human Kinetics
- Published on: 2012-03-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.75" h x 7.00" w x .75" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 216 pages
- Size: 7x10
- Author: Goater, Julian
- Pages: 216
- SHK01749
Review
“Julian Goater offers a practical approach to running, explaining not only what to do but how to do it. The Art of Running Faster is a must-have guide for becoming a better runner.” -- David Bedford, Race Director of the Virgin London Marathon
About the Author
Julian Goater is a former world-class runner. He has competed in numerous championships, including the World Championships, the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Cross Country Championships. His times for 5,000 and 10,000 meters remain among the fastest ever by a British athlete.
Since retiring from competing, Julian has been coaching runners of all abilities. His athletes continue to achieve remarkable results by focusing on modifying their running techniques and training prescriptions. Julian has been active in road running, cross country running, duathlon and triathlon. He has won gold twice in his age group at the World Duathlon Championships, and has also won the British Triathlon in his age group. He currently lives in Surrey with his wife, Sue.
Don Melvin is a published author, journalist and lifelong fun runner. His international assignments have included coverage of the Olympic Games in Atlanta and Athens. He has also reported on international political and social topics. Don is currently an editor and correspondent for the Associated Press and has published, under another name, numerous novels for children. A native Vermonter, he now lives in Brussels with his wife, Rodica.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
One of the most useful training books in many years.
By captainrobbo
I think that this is one of the most useful training books to appear in many, many years.
Julian Goater is well known in the UK as one of our best ever distance runners. He was within fifteen seconds of the world 10,000m record at his best in 1982, but is perhaps best known for what may have been the most dramatic "peak race" in UK running history, when he won the National Cross Country against a top class field by almost two minutes in 1981. He's also a very smart guy, and has gone on to learn while working as a coach, sports massage therapist and world-class Masters duathlete. I've heard him speak on several occasions and had been eagerly awaiting this book, which has exceeded my expectations.
The majority of training manuals start with some semi-academic principles of periodisation and physiology then dive into detailed schedules for different distances. This is completely different. Sets, reps and mileage figures are only a minor part of the book - indeed, the obligatory 'schedules' chapter is just five pages long, showing typical weeks from the 10-15 mile per week level up to a marathon schedule. Each of the 13 chapters covers something you can put into practice very quickly that might help you to run a bit faster. Some of the key ideas I would pick out are:
* Attitude. Julian believes that competing is fun, exciting and natural at all levels and there are plenty of strategies to help fan the flames. Yes, it's perfectly acceptable for forty-somethings to get psyched up to outkick that teenager just in front in the local parkrun.
* Every run should have a purpose. Fast days should be fast, and easy days easy. His ideas on what to actually do on a recovery run are priceless - obvious with hindsight yet I had occurred to me now anyone I know in 30 years of running.
* The importance of speed. Track athletes won't need any convincing here, but anyone who just 'goes for a run' four times a week and things that their local 5k time trial is 'speedwork' will find all the encouragement they need to run faster and train through all of the gears - and this is a key to improvement for people at this level. And for someone who excelled from 5k up to 9 miles, he challenged himself to do surprisingly short, fast intense sessions.
* Running technique. He urges you to examine your own, experimenting with body positions and cadence while out on a run. However, there is none of the dogma associated with schools like Pose or Chi running. There's also a large section on breathing, with the emphasis on learning to get more air through your lungs.
* Old school training: how to run fartlek properly, the importance of hills and cross country. When everyone else is talking about lactate levels and precise paces, he keeps it simple and just stresses the importance of running at a variety of (fast) speeds, and regularly using these older techniques. I remember one talk when Julian and Dave Clarke, another national champion, agreed vigorously while grinning from ear to ear that group fartleks were where you figured out exactly how to make your teammates and rivals suffer ;-)
* Stretching. The recent studies showing that really extensive stretches slightly cut your explosive power have given runners everywhere an excuse to skip stretching, but deep down you know that he's right and you ought to stretch out the stiff bits, whether before sessions or in the evening. Julian is also a qualified sports massage therapist. He covers the key stretches runners should do in some detail.
* Peaking. His national victory is famous and he has spent years analysing what produced it, and his advice on what to do in the last 8-9 days before a race is extremely sound and seems to work well.
In summary, it's hard to say exactly to whom this is geared and I think there is something for everyone. This is an ideal first training book for a youngster getting into the sport, or for someone who has been running to get fit and started to enjoy 5ks and 10ks and wants to take things a bit more seriously. On the other hand, for someone who has grown up through club athletics and competed for decades, there are still new ideas, or things our first coach told us that we have probably forgotten all about along the way. Finally, for anyone aged 40+, who grew up in the glory days of British distance running, there are plenty of stories of that great generation of coaches and athletes which bring back fond memories.
Thoroughly recommended.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
How to run better - easy to read guide for runners of every level
By Keith M. H. Donald
Julian's new book, just published, is written by an athlete who has been there, done that, worn the vest and often got the medal.
Very few people are placed better than Julian to write about how to achieve your potential in running with this thought provoking, motivational and often humorous book.
However, despite Julian's performance as an elite international athlete let's get one crucial matter out into the open, this is definitively a book for runners at all levels; joggers, (those casual runners who want to keep fit, lose some weight and jog a few miles a week), as well as competitive runners who want to do better next week than they did last week.
The chapters in the book are set out in a logical, readable form, interspersed with concise comments highlighted in the text with a short summary of the chapter at the end of each section. Julian focuses on the 5, (or is it 6?), Ss: speed, suppleness, strength, stamina, skill and psychology. The importance of the mind is emphasised; the author believes that many of us do not achieve our true potential because often we lack self-belief, that ability to challenge our mental boundaries which inhibit our performance in races. This is as true for the social runner as it is for the runner who races regularly and wants to run faster.
Whilst this is a book full of advice, guidance and challenges, it does refer to Julian's contemporaries, (notably Dave Bedford, Steve Jones, Charlie Spedding and Henry Rono), referring to their views of training and competing as well as those of the author. (As an aside, Spedding's book "from last to first" is a classic autobiography of a sportsperson, an average runner who strived to be better). Julian is a great believer in each of us being able to achieve our potential by listening to our body and being honest with ourselves. However, never "over run" or "over race" is a clear message, and Julian warns runners at all levels that sometimes they need to say "No, I'm not going out this week-end for a few miles, but thanks anyway" in order to maintain that freshness and eagerness for running throughout the year.
It is not all serious stuff. There is a lot of light relief. "The Art of Running Faster" contains some great anecdotes; the one about the Ethiopian runners leading in the World Cross-Country Championships who thought that they had finished after three laps of a four lap race made me laugh and cry at the same time.
Those of us who race and follow athletics know Julian was always a great "club man", whether for Shaftesbury or the R.A.F. Not surprisingly, Julian advocates getting involved in a club for several reasons, (particularly for advice, guidance, support and friendship), emphasising the social aspects for club runners at all levels.
In summary, this is an inspirational book. If you are a runner and want to be a better runner, then this book will make you want to put on those training shoes and kit and go out for a run. Very helpfully, Julian has included an easy to follow training schedules at the end of the book, (written for runners of all levels and ability).
You may not achieve the times that Julian and his colleagues achieved, but this book will give you the encouragement to make the best effort to do so. It's a great read from a great athlete and now a leading coach.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A refreshing and accessible guide to all
By Rob Cameron
Reviewed by Rob Cameron (former Scottish international and North of England Road & XC team manager)
If there was one word that could be used to describe this book it's `accessible'. The book is written in such a manner that anyone, elite athlete, beginner, coach, aspiring coach or PE teacher could use it to support the development of any running programme.
What I particularly liked about the book is the way Julian uses his vast experience both anecdotally and professionally to advise the reader of how to build up a programme, how to sustain performance and indeed improve performance, as well as looking at how to avoid, protect oneself from injury.
Julian makes running fun and uses his knowledge of the art of running and the key principles of the importance of hill training and cross country tradition which I remember fondly as how I got started and introduces us to how we can begin to shape performance through running technique and the essentials of stretching.
Throughout the book, you can glimpse the highlights or top tips; these allow the reader to succinctly put in prospective the chapters and give practical advice.
It's refreshing to read a book which reflects my principles to running fast, as a young athlete my success was honed on many of Julian's text, particularly on the need to stretch and improve one's cadence. He does this through key points, how to and coaching points ending each chapter with a key summary.
If you are new to running or an experienced coach you can't but see beauty in this new addition to the running library, I recommend it to anyone involved in the sport which gave such great athletes as Julian himself.
Thanks, this is a text book I will use time and time again, as a dad (to 2 aspiring athletes), team manager and school teacher.
Rob Cameron
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