No Need for Speed : A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running (Paperback)

from wvlibrarydude

Quick skim of a read. More of a motivational read with lots of fluff. I didn't learn anything new, just confirmed things I had already learned. The whole book could have been condensed to a single article.

from francescadefreitas

This book was pretty helpful. Reading it slowly has helped me change my attitude about running. Although I am not interested in racing, there were chapters on why someone would be motivated to run at all. I found the chapter on preventing and dealing with injury, and the chapter on other sports a...

from sandpiper

A truly inspirational book for the beginner runner. Bingham bases his book on his own mistakes when starting out running - too much too soon, not listening to your body, setting goals which are too ambitious, etc. The book is peppered with quotes and advice from people who have started to run in ...

from KR_Patterson

I loved this book! I felt like it was written just for me. I really had a complete, life-altering change in attitude toward running somewhere in the middle of reading this. I have been running off and on for maybe three years, and the whole time I felt like I was pretty much engaging in self-infl...

from KR_Patterson

I loved this book! I felt like it was written just for me. I really had a complete, life-altering change in attitude toward running somewhere in the middle of reading this. I have been running off and on for maybe three years, and the whole time I felt like I was pretty much engaging in self-infl...