5/21/2023 0 Comments Endurance book![]() I’ve gotten into rock climbing over the past few years, and Chaundy-Smart has been one of my guides to this world. This is the book I’m finishing up right now. ![]() Solid advice, clearly presented.Ī Youth Wasted Climbing, David Chaundy-Smart It’s actually a great overview of the science of endurance training for anyone, but particularly focused on how to adapt as you get older. The best of this year’s batch of practical books on science and performance. It’s an amazing adventure story about a different kind of endurance.įast After 50: How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life, Joe Friel It remains the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross the Antarctic in 1914 and his crew’s subsequent two-year struggle for survival. I’m a bit tardy in recommending this one - it was first published in 1959, but I just got around to reading it earlier this year. Just like hardcore Star Wars fan may grumble about prequels but will inevitably see them, I’ll be reading it soon.Įndurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing This one is (from what I’ve been told) not a running novel, but apparently it’s good. I’m a little scared, because OAR was so important for me, and Again to Carthage (the sequel, published back in 2010) was inevitably a disappointment. If you haven’t, I’d suggest you start there (chronology be damned). If you’ve read Once a Runner, I don’t need to say anything more. This is the new prequel to Once a Runner, the classic hardcore runner’s cult novel. Here’s a good teaser he wrote for The Independent. The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running, Adharanand Finnīack in 2013, Finn published Running with the Kenyans, an account of his six months of running in Kenya searching for “the secrets of the fastest people on earth.” For his follow-up, which was published earlier this year, he ventures to Japan, which if anything has an even more running-crazed culture than Kenya. The races make it a fun read, and the psychology is thought-provoking. His latest book examines a series of notable races through the lens of Samuele Marcora’s “psychobiological” theory of endurance. ![]() How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle, Matt Fitzgeraldįitzgerald has been writing about the psychology of endurance performance for more than a decade now and is really one of the pioneers in terms of trying to take this body of research out of the laboratory and into the field for everyone to try. But as he digs deeper into Jamaican sprinting culture, he comes up with some other potential answers that are worth considering. well, Moore, a seasoned cycling journalist, would agree that’s a good place to start asking questions. The book isn’t a Bolt biography, but rather a wider exploration of why Jamaicans are currently sprinting so fast. ![]() Okay, this isn’t a book about “endurance,” but I’m taking a broad view of the kinds of books that you might find interesting. The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory, Richard Moore It has a particular focus on the great Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai, who Caesar tailed at races around the world. Instead, it’s a lovely meditation on the meaning of the marathon, and the men and women who are trying to push its limits. Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, Ed Caesarĭon’t be fooled: it’s not a delusional fantasy about how humans are going to lop three minutes off the current marathon world record. Here are a few that I’ve enjoyed this year or that I’m looking forward to cracking open in the New Year: ‘Tis the season to offer a few book recommendations.
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