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Daniels Running Formula
Fourth Edition
Jack Daniels, PhD
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Daniels, Jack, 1933- author.
Title: Daniels running formula / Jack Daniels, PhD.
Description: Fourth edition. | Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2022] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020043304 (print) | LCCN 2020043305 (ebook) | ISBN 9781718203662 (paperback) | ISBN 9781718203679 (epub) | ISBN 9781718203686 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Running. | Running--Training.
Classification: LCC GV1062 .D36 2022 (print) | LCC GV1062 (ebook) | DDC 796.42--dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-7182-0366-2 (print)
Copyright 2022, 2014, 2005, 1998 by Jack Tupper Daniels
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Dedication
It is with great honor that I dedicate this book to my wife, Nancy. She is my best friend; my most appreciated person in the world; and the mother of our two beautiful daughters, Audra and Sarah.
Nancy and I traveled the world together, met royalty, and jumped off a moving train together in Thailand. During these many exciting times, Nancy won 10 New England Championship titles, qualified for two Olympic trials, twice dealt with breast cancer, faced the horrors of PTSD, and went on to become a practicing registered nurse. Everyone Nancy meets has nothing but kind words about my most compassionate wife.
Daniels Running Formula provides some of the foundations of successful running, but without Nancy by my side, none of this book would be possible. Any recognition of my success, including being named Worlds Best Coach by Runners World, does not give due credit to what Nancy provided in terms of my achievements. My many years of coaching successwith Nike, State University of New York at Cortland, Brevard College, and Wells Collegewere clearly the result of having Nancy by my side. Nancy was the heart and soul of all these teams and individual runners. Being an elite runner herself, with a compassionate heart for others, always allowed her to appropriately evaluate different running events and course and weather conditions. Indispensable (to me and to our teams success) is the word that comes to mind in describing my talented and wonderful wife, Nancy.
Contents
Preface
The first edition of Daniels Running Formula was published in 1998, and I have learned a great deal about running and runners since then. You might find it strange that after so many years of study and coaching, I keep finding new, more practical, and often simpler ways of prescribing training and racing programs, but its true. I remain inspired by the many runners and coaches who so often contact me to say they used many of my training ideas with considerable success and encourage me to continue to look for new ideas and simpler ways to improve their fitness and performance. And I want to pass on these new ideas and show you how Ive improved on several aspects, even since the third edition of my book.
It has been an interesting journey working with and researching elite (and some not-so-elite) runners over the years. Although we tend to go through phases of what is considered the best approach to improved performance, it all boils down to following some basic principles, trying to adjust training to meet individual needs, and prescribing training that is productive yet minimizes the chances of injury. I have always tried to emphasize the importance of consistency in training and to produce the greatest benefit from the least amount of training stress rather than assuming there will be better results by imposing the greatest amount of stress.
We tend to think that particular groups of runners in the world have inherent physiological or biomechanical advantages over other groups of runners, but it is hard to separate the physiological and biomechanical differences from the psychological or sociological differences that may exist. For example, in some lesser-developed societies, winning a race can bring national or even worldwide attention to a runner, and younger runners in that society are encouraged to follow that pathway to personal recognition and financial benefits.
No one has all the answers as to how best to train, and there is no single system that works best for everyone. What I always aim to do in my books on running is to present scientific information in a manner that both coaches and athletes can appreciate and use. Then they can decide whether the knowledge and the training and racing programs provided in the pages that follow have a positive impact on them, the runners and running coaches.