The Runner’s Code: 100 Years of Training Methods That Changed Running
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The Runner’s Code: 100 Years of Training Methods That Changed Running
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$23.99
Regular price $28.99
Why do you train the way you train? Where do the methods you use every week actually come from?
Behind every interval session there is a story. A specific person, in a specific historical moment, who discovered something about the human body that no book yet contained.
The Runner’s Code traces 100 years of training history through the athletes and coaches who changed everything — from Paavo Nurmi timing himself with a borrowed watch in the forests of Finland in 1912, to Jakob Ingebrigtsen pricking his finger thirty times per session in Norway, to Courtney Dauwalter running blind through the final miles of a hundred-miler.
17 chapters. 17 methods. One hundred years of running.
Gerschler and the first interval laboratory. Zátopek and the 100×400m session. Lydiard and the aerobic base. Maffetone and the 180 formula. The Kenyan secret that is no secret. The Norwegian double threshold. Koop and the inverted periodization for ultras.
Each chapter tells the story of a method through the person who created it — and ends with the numbers and principles you can apply to your own training today.
Written by an ultrarunner for runners who want to understand not just what to do, but why.
Behind every interval session there is a story. A specific person, in a specific historical moment, who discovered something about the human body that no book yet contained.
The Runner’s Code traces 100 years of training history through the athletes and coaches who changed everything — from Paavo Nurmi timing himself with a borrowed watch in the forests of Finland in 1912, to Jakob Ingebrigtsen pricking his finger thirty times per session in Norway, to Courtney Dauwalter running blind through the final miles of a hundred-miler.
17 chapters. 17 methods. One hundred years of running.
Gerschler and the first interval laboratory. Zátopek and the 100×400m session. Lydiard and the aerobic base. Maffetone and the 180 formula. The Kenyan secret that is no secret. The Norwegian double threshold. Koop and the inverted periodization for ultras.
Each chapter tells the story of a method through the person who created it — and ends with the numbers and principles you can apply to your own training today.
Written by an ultrarunner for runners who want to understand not just what to do, but why.