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Running in the Midpack

How to Be a Strong, Successful and Happy Runner

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Running in the Midpack

By: Martin Yelling, Anji Andrews
Narrated by: Martin Yelling, Anji Andrews
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Bloomsbury presents Running in the Midpack by Anji Andrews and Martin Yelling, read by Martin Yelling and Anji Andrews.

'...a really, really, really good book' – Vassos Alexander

‘A masterpiece' – Paul-Sinton Hewitt CBE, parkrun founder

‘A lovely book… it is really simple about getting a nice relationship with your running where it helps your life and changes with your life… Very accessible.’ – Paul Tonkinson, Running Commentary presenter and author

A smart running book designed for the all-too-often overlooked middle-of-the-pack runner, written by Marathon Talk’s Martin Yelling and Anji Andrews.

Welcome to the midpack!

Running pushes us, stretches us, asks us difficult questions, challenges us. It gives us space, calms us down, picks us up, boosts our energy, rewards, inspires and fulfils us.

Midpack runners – those who fall between the beginners and the elite – are the heartbeat and footsteps of the running community. In this long-overdue book, Marathon Talk's Martin Yelling and Anji Andrews share their expert knowledge, first-person stories and coaching ideas to nourish the midpackers’ running experience.

Covering such diverse topics as ‘Making Yourself Bullet-proof’ and ‘How to Nail Your Race’, Running in the Midpack will cultivate your running progress, and help you to become a healthy, happy and successful runner.

Marathon Talk is the UK's number one running podcast.

©2021 Anji Andrews and Martin Yelling (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Running & Jogging Outdoor Heartfelt Inspiring

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Good stuff from Martin and Anji, some good tips and motivational. Fans of Marathon Talk will enjoy this.

Mid-pack

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This was a great book to re-set my running journey.
Full of common sense and guidance, I’d recommend this to all runners, not just us in the mid-pack.
It’s read by Martin (mainly) and Anji whose voices are very recognisable to those that listen to Marathon Talk.
I will be buying the physical book too as part of the guidance I feel will translate better on paper (for me); don’t let that put you off downloading the Audible version though.

Excellent

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How refreshing to find a book on running that addresses the mental aspects of running as much as the physical. I love that it didn’t assume the existing knowledge of experience of the reader, and the authors didn’t claim to be experts. A book I can see myself coming back to again and again.

Best running book I’ve read

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I think my headline pretty much covers it. No great theorizing or radical ideas, but decent solid advice for runners. Chatty style, but well thought out and informative.

The dickhead switch. Best. Advice. Ever.

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Having taken time off running and coming back to it, this is exactly the book I needed to listen to.

Full of all the mental thoughts us mid pack runners go through and the demands and pressures we place on ourselves. This book has made me very excited to want to participate at events again and getting rid of the self doubts I’ve had coming back as a slightly different and slower runner than I used to be.

Martin Yelling is very easy to listen to and I spent all of my time listening to this audio as I was pounding the pavements out running, very motivating and a feel good book.

Just what I needed to hear

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Some useful advice but not my fave running book so far. I love running (and consider myself a newbie since I started in 2020) but I didn't find this book all that inspiring or even telling me much that I didn't already know. I wanted to like it and listened through in the hope that it would suddenly click with me but I found the content a bit dry and too repetitive. The phrase "mid pack runner" must have been used almost every other paragraph which grates after a while. I thought the book might provide some more technical info about training and nutrition but its wooly in that area and the book is more like a motivational "in praise of the kid pack runner" style theme which is not what I expected.

Not for me...

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I tried listening to this one my long runs but frequently noticed I had zoned out or become totally bored.
There's nothing really in here that you most likely won't already know if you run to the level assumed of the book.

I think this is one of those books that works better in print, so that you can flick through chapters that are relevant to you rather than having to read all of it.

A bit boring

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it was repetitive, in inspiring and the content just felt like lists of stuff, maybe I don't care about being a mod pack runner or class myself in this way. a big focus on racing too I felt rather than running for running, so not my cup of tea

I just didn't enjoy this

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Yes, there are some good tips, but they are thrown at you paragraph but paragraph with little substance. Each chapter feels the same. The narration doesn’t help either. Am I missing something here? Is it just me? Managed four chapters. Sorry just not getting this.

Groundhog Day, chapter by chapter

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I got halfway through chapter 2, waiting for something of substance to be said, before i gave up. This felt like one long listen of waffle & padding, like a schoolchild trying to fill the wordcount on an essay. Im sure the authors have a lot of knowledge but this one wasn’t for me.

Verbose with little substance

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