 Alright guys, time for another book review, a running book review. We are reviewing Faster Road Racing by Pete Fitzinger and Philip Ladder. So Pete Fitzinger is a former Olympic marathoner, a renowned coach, exercise physiologist, one of my favorite running teachers and Philip Ladder, I don't know that much about him, says here that he rides for runners world, running times and he's also a runner himself. We'll go through the contents of the book a little bit, but first of all I want to just say what makes this book so great is Pete Fitzinger's style, or I guess the style of the book, they're both involved in it, the style of the book is very Everything's just very well explained, okay? It's just if you're a beginner or an advanced either way this book will teach you the basics of running, particularly from 5k to half marathon, and of course the other famous book he wrote, probably more famous than this one, is Advanced Marathoning by Pete Fitzinger and Scott Douglas. We'll talk about that in another video and what's sort of the whole mark of these two books is that everything is very simply explained. Well, that's not right. It's not simple It's complete, it goes through exercise physiology basics, talks about the different styles of training and why they're good and what kind of adaptions you're getting as a runner, so he definitely goes in depth, but he explains it in a way, or they explain it in a way, that's understandable to pretty much anyone. Let's look at the contents. So basically, I'll read through the chapters Elements of training, balancing training and recovery, supplementary training, the well-fed runner's diet, considerations for master's runners, tapering for p-performance, follow, and then it gets into the schedules, that's like some training programs included here, following the schedules, base training, training for 5k, 8k to 10k, 15k, 10 mile, half marathon, and training for multiple distances. So if you're into racing essentially, if you're into performance and you're not just running for fun, if you're actually, well, it's a lot of fun to train, but you know what I mean, if you're running for performance and you want to perform well in different races from 5k to half marathon, this is the book to get, seriously, it's just, it's excellent. And if you want to buy it, just mention it. There is an affiliate link in the description, an Amazon link, if you click it and you choose to buy, we'll get paid a little bit of a commission, but the price remains the same for you. So if you want to check out the book, you can click that link, and that would support the long trail YouTube channel. So let's look a little bit into the book here. It talks about lactate, right? Lactate threshold pace, what is it? Understanding lactate threshold place, typical lactate threshold values, what is VO2 max training, what does it mean? Equal training, right? What length of interval should you do? What the recovery period should be? He's building a lot on Jack Daniels type training. I made a review of Jack Daniels distance running formula in another video. I'll put a link to it there. So do check that out. He's building a lot on his concepts. And of course that further builds on Arthur Lydia's concepts. And so it's well proven coaching advice, and of course based soundly on exercise physiology, evidence based training. He goes into some exercises you can do, some just general strength exercises, talks about tapering, you know, before a race. The role of iron in the runner's diet talks a little bit about nutrition. He goes into supplementary training, as I said. Essentially, you know, if you're a beginner or an advanced person, and you're looking now to build up to your first half marathon, for example, and you're thinking, what kind of training should I do? What kind of pace should I hit? How often should I do a tempo run? What is a tempo run anyway? What about interval training versus long runs versus recovery runs? How do I know the difference? That sort of thing. That's all in this book. And of course, as I said, it ends the latter part of the book, the second half, I guess, is full of these schedules, where it goes through 12 weeks of training, different sessions, and they're all based on different race distances and different weekly volumes, depending on your time investment. Suppose you're a really advanced runner, you might run up to, you know, 120k per week or even 100 miles, as opposed to someone beginning, maybe just running 30, 40 kilometers per week. So just an excellent book of all the books that I've read, and I've read a lot, I would say this is the one book to get if you are a beginner. As I said, it's perfectly fine for advanced runners as well. But if you are a beginner, you know, something like Jack Daniels distance running formula might not be exactly what you're looking for. If you are a beginner, right, if you are, or even if you run quite a lot, but you're a beginner in terms of training systematically, or a beginner in terms of exercise physiology, this is a perfect introduction to that. So if you maybe you have a friend who's just getting into running, or maybe you're getting into it yourself, or maybe you've been into it for a while, but you want to take it more seriously, take it to the next level. This would be probably the book I would recommend the most. So if you're interested, go to the link in the description, the affiliate link and check it out on Amazon. It's a fine day here in the Nis, southern France. It's a recovery day for me. So I'm just relaxing. I might do a little bit of an easy run this afternoon. But right now, just making videos and getting some work done. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe if you haven't done so already. I would love to have your subscriber to my channel. And if you're interested in more book reviews, I have made quite a few of them. I'll put a link to my book review playlist somewhere here and you can check that out. Thanks a lot. Have an awesome day. I wish you all the best in terms of running, training and life in general. Thanks. Bye.