A Guide to Running Your First Marathon

by Doug Limbrick

For many novice and even some experienced runners completing the 42.2 kilometres (26 miles) involved in running a marathon seems daunting and too difficult to contemplate. For those who have run a half marathon the thought of running two half marathons back to back may seem impossible. However this short book has been written to demonstrate that most runners can complete a marathon and then it provides the information about how to go about preparing for the event, running the marathon and recovering. The book includes advice It also has a proposed three-month training program with day-by-day advice.

62 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2017

About the author

A graduate of the Australian National University, Canberra (geography, political history, economic history, economics). Worked for many years in the broad area of social policy (developing options, providing advice, monitoring and evaluation). Authored many papers and reports on social policy issues in areas such as poverty, disadvantage, housing and homelessness including developing international comparisons. Over the last 20 years have focussed particularly on nineteenth-century emigration to the Australian colonies, including exploring the reasons people emigrated with a focus on disadvantaged groups that emigrated. A special research interest has been the changes in Britain (especially social and economic changes) that prompted so many people to emigrate to the colonies and in looking at the impact of the emigration process, the passage and the arrival on those who emigrated.

Have also been a very keen photographer for many years (have had some work published), a collector of vintage cameras and involved over a long period in distance running (including club administration).

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basics are explained quite well.