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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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About this listen

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
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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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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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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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