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    Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
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    Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
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    Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
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    Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity

    By Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea

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    About this ebook

    At its core, Train Like a Mother comprehensively covers how to train for a race, including training plans for four race distances (5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon) for both beginner and more experienced runners; the importance of recovery; pre- and post-race nutrition; strength training; injury prevention (and rehab); and everything busy women need to know to add racing to their multitasking schedules. It is all presented with the same wit, empathy, and tone the avid fans connect and identify with.

    The book is divided into 13.1 chapters—the distance of a half-marathon, the sweet spot for many mother runners—narrated by both Sarah and Dimity. Like the first book, Train Like a Mother chapters have plenty of sidebars, including Practical Motherly Advice (helpful information about training- and race-related advice), Take It from a Mother (advice and answers from the growing tribe of running moms), and Racy Talk (entertaining, race-related stories from the authors and other moms). The .1 sections are entertaining "commercial breaks" celebrating the sport of running and the added thrill of racing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateMar 20, 2012
    ISBN9781449410421
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    Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity

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    • 4/5
      Good info. Very useful. (Full review to come on blog.)
    • 4/5
      This book is a comprehensive training plan for any level of runner. Whether you are running your first 5k, your first marathon or your 47th, you will like the easy training plans, explanations of how to eat, what to wear on race day and many others in between. It not only has training schedules, but funny antidotes along the way of why you should follow a certain schedule and how it's worked for other runners. They talk about many practical parts of running and juggling life, whether you are a mother or not. They also go over some pretty sensitive issues, that some others may not talk about. They call it TMI Tuesday and some of the subjects are things like chafe, going commando and various other things that happen in weird places. The book even comes in 13.1 clever chapters! The only thing I can say that I did not like about this book is that they have question and answer sections scattered throughout. While I like the idea and love the input from other runners, I wish they were concentrated at the back of each chapter instead of being randomly placed, since that meant I had to stop what I was reading to read them instead, so it broke the flow of my concentration. But that is my only complaint. Otherwise, this was an enjoyable book! I give it 4 stars. I would recommend this book to a friend in a heartbeat!
    • 3/5
      Was alright, not as enjoyable as Run like a Mother.