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Follow on Google News | Matt Fitzgerald's New Runner's Diary Helps Runners Set Personal RecordsRunning coach and fitness journalist Matt Fitzgerald has improved upon this critical training tool with his new book, The Runner's Diary: A Daily Training Log.
By: Dave Trendler The Runner's Diary helps runners plan and monitor their season. Using Fitzgerald's step-by-step guide, runners can design a customized, season-long training plan. Fitzgerald guides runners through selecting peak and tune-up races, designing a weekly training cycle, and planning peak training weeks, mileage targets, and key workout progressions. The two-color diary pages offer plenty of space for key data such as resting heart rate, mileage, pace/splits, intensity, aches and pains, subjective workout ratings, and daily nutrition. With this detailed log, runners will gain insight into their fitness and performance. Runners can use Fitzgerald's Target Pace Level and Intensity Factor systems to ensure that they are on track and gaining fitness from every run. The Target Pace Level system is a simplified, performance- The Runner's Diary: A Daily Training Log by Matt Fitzgerald Paperback with semi-enclosed wire-o binding and two-color interior 6 1/2" x 9", 232 pp., VP-RDD, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-934030- * 16 million Americans ran on 100 or more days per year in 2007. (Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association) * There were 15,500 running events in 2007 including 630 half-marathons and 425 marathons. (Running USA) * Fitzgerald is a regular contributor to leading health and fitness publications, including Runner's World, Running Times, Men's Health, Outside, Bicycling, and Her Sports. * The Runner's Diary is based on the successful format of the VeloPress training diaries from Joe Friel. * VeloPress is the book publishing unit of Competitor Group, Inc., which produces Elite Racing's Rock 'n' Roll marathon and half-marathon events. Matt Fitzgerald is a prolific health and fitness journalist and author of 12 published and forthcoming books on fitness, nutrition, and weight loss, including Brain Training for Runners and Performance Nutrition for Runners. Fitzgerald is also a featured coach with Training Peaks, where he creates interactive training plans for runners and triathletes. Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events: Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com Distributors and specialty retailers please order through: Jen Soulé, Sales Manager, (800) 811-4210 x169, wholesale@competitorgroup.com # # # VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher focusing on the sports of cycling and triathlon, with training books that help both serious athletes and beginners build skills and fitness. End
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