Off Road running - Sarah Rowel

[SEFTON]

Off Road running - Sarah Rowell book.

this is a great book!




£10 posted

[Swoop]

Off Road running - Sarah Rowell book.

this is a great book!

£10 posted

You had better tell Graham! :wink:

[Graham Breeze]

You had better tell Graham! :wink:

So what price my autographed copy, with a kiss?

[Witton Park]

So what price my autographed copy, with a kiss?

Less than the one without the kiss

[Mike T]

There is a new one soon to be released by Sarah together with Wendy Dodds - an ad for it was placed on my car at Y3Ps - "Trail and Mountain Running" - £14.99.

[Fozzy42]

Yeah I saw that one advertised, gonna have to buy a copy

[DrPatrickBarry]

I clicked on the Sarah Rowell amazon link to have a look and now I see it on every bloody advert that is powered by google's snooping on where I have been. I am getting sick of looking at the blokes stupid shorts.

[dominion]

Jigsaws as well?? :w00t:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jigsaw-Brita...s=sarah+rowell

[Derby Tup]

Jigsaws as well?? :w00t:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jigsaw-Brita...s=sarah+rowell

I thought the Oxenhope Straw Race was teams of two :closed:

[alwaysinjured]

I have no idea where this post belongs.. probably not here!!!
But since the book already got a mention , might as well write it here!

I got hold of a copy of "trail and mountain" running by Wendy and Sarah,as one of the very few books written about our sport it deserves a review:

The authors need no introduction really, since Wendy is still very active in the sport bringing her medical knowledge and fell experience. Younger readers may not realise that Sarah (saz) was marathon royalty, one of britain's best ever marathoners, still perhaps the only lady to have won a substantial open marathon, before taking to the fells to win more or less everything she went for on the fells as well. Her occupation still in performance sport.

So to the book...

First to say it is a text book / training manual in essence. That means it is not and not intended to be light reading. It is not the kind of book you can pick up and read in a session - it needs thinking about!

It is easy with books like this to assume it will be the "same old stuff" repeated in most training books.
But it is the worth the time to read the detail, and discover the parts of this that are certainly not.It challenges conventional wisdom in a variety of places , just taking an example - noting the lack of any scientific basis for need to stretch on either the basis of performance or injury.

In every chapter I found a number of issues, that were new (at least to me) despite 20 years of running and reading. Like 1 minute hill reps for people doing long races. The anecdotes are interesting too. Like what does happen to your VO2max as you get older...from personal experience

So I think it is well worth the read, not least for the photos supplied by a number including Ian Charters, and woodentops!

The sad thing is..I only found time to read it when I was unable to run again because of injury, so not much chance to try what it says.

( but touch wood..now done 3, 1 hour sessions this week since coming back to running 2 weeks ago, a couple of those on the fell - which is not bad for someone a committee member just said was "not a fellrunner" in an email to me)