20B20W - 5th book

Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger & Scott Douglas

Highly recommended reading for people interested in setting PBs. Rides on the wealth of experience of Pete who ran just 18 marathons in his career but ran most of them like a stud, winning 8 of them including the US Olympic trials in 1984 ahead of the likes of Salazar, Bill Rodgers and Tony Sandoval. Start on the book when you have hit 50 miles a week atleast once in your life to make good use of it. Else you won't develop the sense of appreciation required to absorb the relatively short read at around 200 pages.

Reading Racing Weight & Lore of Running in parallel. Difficult to not get inspired, especially by the latter, with an entire chapter on legends ranging from Arthur Newton to Clarence De Mar to the modern rock stars - Haile, Paul Tergat and the rest