Heard about the Phil Maffetone book, The Big Book of Training and Endurance, on the huaraches group. Didn't know much about it, but was buying some gifts for Erin on Amazon, and ended up buying some gifts for myself, too. I bought it, and two Matt Fitzgerald books, one about getting down to race weight, one about running by feel.
The books came the other day, and I had a forced day of rest due to a typhoon, and grabbed the Maffetone book, beastly as it was, to try out on the train. I got sucked into it right away, and have so far managed to plow my way through almost a quarter of its 500+ pages.
The gist of what I've gotten so far, other than that his approach is very holistic and all aspects of health need to be considered in training, is building an aerobic base. This involves using an HRM while running, and not going beyond your max heart rate, in other words, no speed work. Goes against what I've been doing recently, and while I have gained speed, I have not been happy with what's happening with my body in terms of injury, blisters, fatigue, and overall inconsistency.
So I'm giving it a go. I'm going to follow his recommendations for the next four months or so in anticipation of getting in some good races this fall. I want to run a 10k in September, a HM in October, and hopefully a sub 3:00 FM in November, probably Tsukuba.
I've still got a lot to get out of the book, nutrition, stress, injury etc. But I've got the gist of the aerobic base building for now, and I've already started. Will start to log the results today.
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