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Ace The Half: Run Your Best Half Marathon, Get In Shape, And Finally Tick "Finish The Race" Off Your Bucket List
This insightful training strategy writing is full of running advice for novices and recreational athletes. Here to help in your planning and preparation is a guide through your half marathon journey - whether that's to check it off your bucket list or to get fit.
Ace The Half is an engaging book by running coach Beverly Asante Puschmann, who is a certified distance-running coach, a certified nutrition coach, and who is a half marathon runner herself. She's sprinkled in relatable stories about her own life to keep you laughing and entertained while she provides you with all the information you'll need. This is running writing for beginners and consistent athletes.
Not only does this book motivate you to keep running, but there are also checklists, running tips about preparation, advice about choosing the best equipment and tools to use, and food intake (aka fueling) suggestions. Beverly even covers recovery after the fact, so you can use this book to prepare for multiple half marathons.
In Ace The Half, you'll learn
This running book for novice half marathoners is full of tips about running challenges, running advice about nutrition, and so much more!
When will you run your first or next half marathon?
Ace The Half is an engaging book by running coach Beverly Asante Puschmann, who is a certified distance-running coach, a certified nutrition coach, and who is a half marathon runner herself. She's sprinkled in relatable stories about her own life to keep you laughing and entertained while she provides you with all the information you'll need. This is running writing for beginners and consistent athletes.
Not only does this book motivate you to keep running, but there are also checklists, running tips about preparation, advice about choosing the best equipment and tools to use, and food intake (aka fueling) suggestions. Beverly even covers recovery after the fact, so you can use this book to prepare for multiple half marathons.
In Ace The Half, you'll learn
This running book for novice half marathoners is full of tips about running challenges, running advice about nutrition, and so much more!
When will you run your first or next half marathon?
184 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2022
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About the author
Beverly Asante Puschmann
1 bookAs a former competitive high school and university athlete turned couch potato, who is now back on track as a half marathon runner, Beverly Asante Puschmann, a Certified Distance Running Coach and Certified Nutrition Coach, has walked (or rather: run!) the talk. She has researched everything you need to know to successfully run a half marathon with ease - and compiled it for you in this book. Let the fun begin! Visit ilovetorunandrace.com to learn more.
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January 24, 2023
Super helpful advice for a first time half marathon runner! It checked off all the questions I have been looking up on google for months and is so nice to have the checklists written out in front of you for race planning. Would recommend for first time runners to help you establish everything you need to know pre-during-and post race!
May 24, 2023
Just ran my first half and with the help of this book, I easily crushed my goal time! For someone that basically went from couch to 13.1, I was ecstatic.
The fueling and prep and race day strategies were particularly helpful especially since I came down with bronchitis 14 days before the race—was only able to run again two days before the race. Plenty of time to read the book though and dial in all the pre-race stuff, so on race morning I felt at ease and ready to go, and I had fun!
Anyway, very much enjoyed the book, it was well written, insightful, trustworthy, and (most importantly to me) motivational.
The fueling and prep and race day strategies were particularly helpful especially since I came down with bronchitis 14 days before the race—was only able to run again two days before the race. Plenty of time to read the book though and dial in all the pre-race stuff, so on race morning I felt at ease and ready to go, and I had fun!
Anyway, very much enjoyed the book, it was well written, insightful, trustworthy, and (most importantly to me) motivational.
December 26, 2022
A structured, easy and insightful read for first time runners or those who want to get back into it. The author provides relatable information and tips and takes you from nervous to excited to hit the ground running! A book that fulfills its objective, that I can see myself coming back to.
May 29, 2022
Nice balance between "easy to read"/entertaining and interesting facts / things to remember when you want to get back to running (my case) or want to start running. This book makes it easy to put your running shoes back on: the author herself went from being a "couch potato" to a strong and ambitous runner - a truly inspiring read! Recommended!
May 22, 2023
A great and easy read for novice runners with lots of great tips on how to become your best runner self.
October 15, 2023
Hmmmm....I think I was expecting more - more training tips, training plans even, long distance first hand experiences, race day failures and examples of on the spot flexibility, perhaps some motivational snippets. However, it all just felt.... known, obvious, and some things even immaterial.
The "Book Description" on goodreads is almost comical to read now. It's as though it lists all of the things this book touched on, but didn't quite commit to.
I also abhor calorie counting and wish the nutritional chapters were less focused on measurements and instead provided more examples, recipes, and suggestions of what to actually consume before and after various run types, etc.
I would recommend this book only to someone who isn't a runner at all but wants to start.
The "Book Description" on goodreads is almost comical to read now. It's as though it lists all of the things this book touched on, but didn't quite commit to.
I also abhor calorie counting and wish the nutritional chapters were less focused on measurements and instead provided more examples, recipes, and suggestions of what to actually consume before and after various run types, etc.
I would recommend this book only to someone who isn't a runner at all but wants to start.
January 9, 2023
Really good information if you are a novice runner and good reminder on information if you have run a few half marathons. If you have run 3 half successfully you can skip this book.
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