Excellent Book on the Mental Side of Running and Racing: Running Within
by Weldon Johnson
updated: February 7, 2020
update: 2/7/20 : I wrote this review originally in 2000 but it deserves to be front and center. I credit the book for helping lower my 10k PR from 29:49 to 28:27 in one race. Considering how much time we all spend running, spend a couple of hours reading this book and hopefully it will help your training and racing.
There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of books on the market about how to train smarter, better, harder, or what have you. Some of them are quite good, and some of them quite bad. However, these books often neglect one of the key aspects of running and that is its mental component. And that’s where