Product Description

This durable training journal from the editors at Runners World magazine is both practical to use and inspiring to look at. More than 100 full-color photographs complement weekly spreads for tracking important training data such as distance, time, weather, pace, and mood. A brief introduction explains how keeping a daily record will motivate and improve performance. Throughout the journal youll find helpful tips on effective training, fitness, racing strategy, gear, and nutrition as well as quotes to inspire you whether you are simply hitting the pavement behind a jogging stroller or training for a marathon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #503799 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 126 pages

Review

From the Back Cover
After nearly four decades of running, more than 100,000 miles logged and something like 12,000 separate entries in my training journals, I have three favorite days: one, the day I won the Boston Marathon (of course); two, the day i got married (of course); and three, the day I got married again (hey, no one's perfect, and the second time around was particularly sweet).

Here, in short, is what I wrote in each of those three log entries.

April 19, 1968: "27 miles, including 26.2 miles in Boston Marathon. I won! Felt great the whole way until side stitch the last 2 miles. But I struggled through it."

November 1, 1970: "20 miles, really hard, with a bunch of my running friends who are here for the wedding. The last 5 miles, we were practically racing. What a competitive group!"

July 4, 1995: "3-mile jog in the Groton Long Point July 4th fun run with Cristina, Gary, Dan, Laura, Bill and Jeff. A gorgeous sunny, dry day. We couldn't have hoped for anything better." [Note--The names mentioned, in order: the woman I would marry several hours later; my brother, who performed the ceremony; my two teenage kids; my brother-in-law; my nephew.]

My changing priorities are clear. Once I ran for speed and distance. Now I run for health and friendship and release--to enjoy 30 or 40 minutes away from the phone and the computer. I still seek challenge on occasion, and still enter races when they appeal to me. But mostly I run to clear my head of the day's swirling activities and to enjoy the wondrous thoughts and images that rush in to fill the void.

I hate to admit it, but I've never been any good at keeping a journal--one of those personal diaries that chronicles all the highs and lows of a life. Instead, my best efforts have gone into my training logs. There's no screeplay or Pulitzer Prize int he dozens of these logs I've kept over the years, arranged a bit haphazardly across the bottom tier of a bookcase, but they're good friends, and that counts for a lot.

Thumbing through the pages, I'm carried instantly to the places I've run and the people who have sweated at my side. In high school, we ran through

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Customer Reviews

Keep a log now, because you'll never remember later!
This is a great training journal! Not only does it have a space to record daily run info, but it has little tips and fun facts on every page.

For each day, there is a space to fill in the route you took, distance and time, any cross-training you did, how you felt, and thoughts. At the end of the week, there is a place to record your weekly total miles of running, and your total milage to date.

There are 52 weeks of log space in this journal.

Start recording your milage, feelings, and thoughts now... you will benefit from it in the future... and it may even give you some laughs to see how you felt starting out.

This is a journal, nothing more,
As the title of the book suggests, this is simply a journal for you to record your daily runs, some info about your races and times, and your shoe history. Each page lists space to record info for 3 days of running, and has a quote about running or a tip off to the side. While the tips are helpful for new runners, and the book might be a nice motivational fctor, there is really nothing here that you can't find off the Internet by typing in "running tips" in a search engine.

If you don't have Internet access, it would be a decent book, but Runners World's own web site (and many other sites) has a much more comprehensive online training journal that can not only log your runs, shoes, and routes, but provide detailed reports and graphs as well.

The price of the book is low enough so that it's not really a bad deal, just a little behind the times. After all, the majority of the book IS blank paper.

solid running log
Full color is nice. Organized and has places for miles, time, etc.

Only con is I wish it had more space for writing comments daily, instead of the big weekly comment box. That's just my personal preference, there's nothing wrong with this log.