Derby City Athletic Club

Training and Injury


Recommended Reading
  • Daniels' Running Formula - 2nd Edition
    Daniels' Running Formula - 2nd Edition
    by Dr. Jack Daniels
  • Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team
    Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team
    by Chris Lear
  • Once a Runner: A Novel
    Once a Runner: A Novel
    by John L Parker

Training Articles and Tables

Training Talk with Weldon Johnson - Letsrun.com co-founder Weldon Johnson in an in depth interview regarding training. 


Daniels VDOT Table - Legendary Coach Jack Daniels (PhD) tables that help establish training paces. The link is an excel worksheet where you enter recent race times for various distances to establish a "VDOT". Your VDOT Value is then used in Daniels Training Pace tables to determine paces for everything from Easy runs to Interval workouts.

John Kellog Speaks - Professional American Distance Coach John Kellogg briefly talks about training and the development of a runner. He speaks of there being no shortcuts to success. Letsrun.com co-founder Rober Johnson (RoJo) offers an agreeable rebuttle.

Hadd and "Joe" - Advice from cult Coach "Hadd" and his test runner Joe. Hadds model is aerobic fitness based with many similarities to legendary Coach Lydiard.

Repeatable Training - Cornell Univiersity Coach Robert Johnson talks about training programs that are geared toward long term goals. He also has some great points on the realism of short term goals.

WeJo Speaks - Weldon Johnson talks about the importance of building aerobically and easy running.

Track and Field Videos on Flotrack

 

Nutrition and Injury

Iron Deficiency - Simple explanation(s) of Iron Deficiency syndromes and ferritin levels.