Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon

Zusatztext "Working with Brad for the past three years has helped me get much stronger! allowing me to make it to the next level. Thanks to Brad's training I can now compete with the best in the world every time I race. Dathan Ritzenhein! two-time Olympian Brad's training has elevated my running to heights I daydreamed about as a high school kid. Not only is his training innovative! he's a phenomenal motivator. James Carney! 2008 U.S.A. Half-Marathon Champion Brad understands the entire training package and all its components better than any coach I've worked with! athletically or professionally. Reading this book can help take you to the next level and keep pushing you up as far and fast as you want to go. Sarah Toland! former NCAA All-American! U.S.A. National Cross-Country Team member! and Olympic Trials qualifier for the 5!000 and 10!000 Brad Hudson's years of personal elite training experience! combined with his wide spectrum of training influences! has catapulted him into a class of American coaching that has typically consisted of archaic! iron-fisted coaching systems. He has the ability and openmindedness to return U.S. distance running to prominence. Casey Burchill! 28-minute 10K runner Informationen zum Autor Brad Hudson is the founder and coach of the Performance Training Group, a team of elite runners. He lives in Eugene, Oregon. Matt Fitzgerald has written many training guides for triathletes. He is a senior editor for Triathlete magazine and lives in San Diego, California. Klappentext Learn how to run faster, unlock your potential, and reach peak performance with training advice from a former Olympic trials marathoner and coach to Olympians like Dathan Ritzenhein. Hudson is the most innovative running coach to come along in a generation. Until now, only a handful of elite athletes have been able to benefit from his methods. Now Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon shows all runners how to coach themselves as confidently and effectively as Brad coaches his world-class athletes. Becoming your own best coach is the ticket to running faster at any distance. First you will learn to assess your abilities. Then you'll learn how to devise a training program specifically geared to you. Filled with easy-to-follow sample training programs for distances ranging from the 5K to the marathon and abilities ranging from novice to advanced, Run Faster is the cutting-edge guide for optimal performance. With Hudson's guidance, you can train smarter and more effectively-and avoid injury. And you'll soon be running faster than you ever thought possible!Chapter 1 Adaptive Running Every elite running coach has a training philosophy. Mine is called adaptive running. It is based on my belief that a responsive, evolving, creative approach to training is better than an approach that is too structured and formulaic. Simply put, there is no single training formula that works perfectly for every runner. Nor is it possible to predict exactly how a runner will respond to any particular training formula. What's more, even when a certain formula works well for a runner, he or she changes as a result of using it, so the formula must also change to produce further improvement. For these reasons, a rigid, one-size-fits-all training program will never allow you to realize your full potential as a runner. It may get you started, but it will only take you so far. Adaptive running becomes the natural way to train when you recognize that training must be customized to you individually and adapted every day based on your response to recent training. My experience in coaching and advising a pair of elite runnerswho also happen to be a married coupleprovides a good illustration of why an adaptive approach to running is necessary. A few years ago, Shayne Culpepper,...

"Working with Brad for the past three years has helped me get much stronger, allowing me to make it to the next level. Thanks to Brad’s training I can now compete with the best in the world every time I race.” —Dathan Ritzenhein, two-time Olympian

“Brad’s training has elevated my running to heights I daydreamed about as a high school kid. Not only is his training innovative, he’s a phenomenal motivator.” —James Carney, 2008 U.S.A. Half-Marathon Champion

“Brad understands the entire training package and all its components better than any coach I’ve worked with, athletically or professionally. Reading this book can help take you to the next level and keep pushing you up as far and fast as you want to go.” —Sarah Toland, former NCAA All-American, U.S.A. National Cross-Country Team member, and Olympic Trials qualifier for the 5,000 and 10,000*

• “Brad Hudson’s years of personal elite training experience, combined with his wide spectrum of training influences, has catapulted him into a class of American coaching that has typically consisted of archaic, iron-fisted coaching systems. He has the ability and openmindedness to return U.S. distance running to prominence.” —Casey Burchill, 28-minute 10K runner

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Brad Hudson is the founder and coach of the Performance Training Group, a team of elite runners. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Matt Fitzgerald has written many training guides for triathletes. He is a senior editor for Triathlete magazine and lives in San Diego, California.

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Learn how to run faster, unlock your potential, and reach peak performance with training advice from a former Olympic trials marathoner and coach to Olympians like Dathan Ritzenhein.

Hudson is the most innovative running coach to come along in a generation. Until now, only a handful of elite athletes have been able to benefit from his methods. Now Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon shows all runners how to coach themselves as confidently and effectively as Brad coaches his world-class athletes. Becoming your own best coach is the ticket to running faster at any distance.

First you will learn to assess your abilities. Then you'll learn how to devise a training program specifically geared to you. Filled with easy-to-follow sample training programs for distances ranging from the 5K to the marathon and abilities ranging from novice to advanced, Run Faster is the cutting-edge guide for optimal performance.

With Hudson's guidance, you can train smarter and more effectively-and avoid injury. And you'll soon be running faster than you ever thought possible!

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Chapter 1  

Adaptive Running  

Every elite running coach has a training philosophy. Mine is called adaptive running. It is based on my belief that a responsive, evolving, creative approach to training is better than an approach that is too structured and formulaic. Simply put, there is no single training formula that works perfectly for every runner. Nor is it possible to predict exactly how a runner will respond to any particular training formula. What’s more, even when a certain formula works well for a runner, he or she changes as a result of using it, so the formula must also change to produce further improvement. For these reasons, a rigid, one-size-fits-all training program will never allow you to realize your full potential as a runner. It may get you started, but it will only take you so far. Adaptive running becomes the natural way to train when you recognize that training must be customized to you individually and adapted every day based on your response to recent training.  

My experience in coaching and advising a pair of elite runners—who also happen to be a married couple—provides a good illustration of why an adaptive approach to running is necessary. A few years ago, Shayne Culpepper, a 5,000-meter specialist, asked me to help her qualify for the 2004 Olympics. Shayne fared so well off th…