Not Your "Run" of the Mill Running Book What an interesting running book! Buy this book if you: -would like to be able to run well into your old age
-would like to improve your running form and have fewer injuries
-would like to have a more philosophical approach to your running
-would like to increase your overall health Here's how the book roughly pans out: -Chapter 1: compares power running to ChiRunning
-Chapter 2: goes into the 5 principles upon which TaiChi and ChiRunning are based
-Chapter... more info
Phenomenal This is a fantastic book. After practicing the principles, i found that my running time improved significantly but more importantly I hav'nt been plagued by the painful injuries i usually suffer every time i run. Running is easier and fun once more! Go for it!
This seems to really work I read the first half of the book while on a sports holiday, borrowed from a friend. I applied a few of the principles explained in the book each afternoon finishing with a 10K race. To my entire surprise (since one of the principles proposed in the book is that aiming for a given time is external to the process of running, thus I duly dumped my sports watch) I bettered my previous best time by 6 minutes (from 56 minutes down to 50) and without feeling fully exhausted as I had done on my previous... more info
Excellent book As a 30-something trying to get fit again, I was scared to run again due to problems with my knees. Before I read this book, running had become laboured and every so often one of my knees would start complaining. Having read this book once and starting to focus on changing just a couple of things, i.e. lifting my feet and stopping my knees from pronating (ie turning out), I have just come back from a run that I normally return feeling shattered, but instead feel like I have just warmed up. Thats... more info
