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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
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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.

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Critic reviews

A masterpiece... I can relate to Running in the Midpack so well. This book will teach you what to look out for, how to balance your running so that you achieve the best 'you' possible, and to extend your running throughout your life. (Paul-Sinton Hewitt CBE, parkrun founder)
...a really, really, really good book (Vassos Alexander)
A really useful book for anyone who has just got into running and is keen to explore every avenue, or indeed it's also super-handy for those of us who have plateaued slightly – where it's all started off swimmingly, but the past few months have been a bit of a battle
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)
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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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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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Good stuff from Martin and Anji, some good tips and motivational. Fans of Marathon Talk will enjoy this.

Mid-pack

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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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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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