Run with Power: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running

Run with Power: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running

by JimVance (Author)

Synopsis

RUN WITH POWER is the groundbreaking guide you need to tap the true potential of your running power meter. From 5K to ultramarathon, a power meter can make you faster-but only if you know how to use it. Just viewing your numbers is not enough; you can only become a faster, stronger, more efficient runner when you know what your key numbers mean for your workouts, races, and your season-long training. In Run with Power, TrainingBible coach Jim Vance offers the comprehensive guide you need to find the speed you want.

Run with Power demystifies the data and vocabulary so you can find and understand your most important numbers. You'll set your Running Power Zones so you can begin training using 8 power-based training plans for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. Vance shows you how you can compare wattage, heart rate, pace, and perceived exertion to gain the maximum insight into your performances, how you respond to training, and how you can train more effectively.

Run with Power will revolutionize how you train and race. Armed with Vance's guidance, you can train more specifically for races, smooth your running technique, accurately measure your fitness, predict a fitness plateau, monitor injuries, know exactly how hard you're training, get more fitness from every workout, recover fully, perfect your tapers, warm up without wasting energy, pace your race on any terrain, know when to open the throttle, and create an unprecedented picture of yourself as an athlete.

If you're just glancing at the number on your wrist or computer monitor, you've got a lot more speed potential. Knowledge is power and understanding your power numbers can open the gate to new methods and new PRs. Run with Power introduces the use of power meters to the sport of running and will show you how to break through to all-new levels of performance.

Key concepts explored in Run with Power: 3/9 Test, 30-minute Time Trial Test, Running Functional Threshold Power (rFTPw), Running Functional Threshold Pace (rFTPa), Averaged and Normalized Power (NP), Intensity Factor (IF), Peak Power, Variability Index, Efficiency Index (EI), speed per watt, Vance's Power Zones for Running, Training Stress Score (TSS), and Periodization with Power. Includes 6 testing methods and 8 power-based training schedules and workouts for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 1st edition, June 2016
Publisher: VeloPress
Published: 15 Jun 2016

ISBN 10: 1937715434
ISBN 13: 9781937715434
Book Overview: Publicity and excerpts in key running media 2-year print advertising campaign in key running media Content marketing campaign on runwithpower.net.

Media Reviews

Coaches and Athletes on Power Meters for Running and Run with Power by Jim Vance

As advanced technology becomes available for runners, the opportunity to get a step on the competition increases dramatically for the early adopters. The runner's power meter is the latest example of that. It's a complex tool, but one with great potential for enhancing performance. There's no one better to help you understand running with power than Jim Vance. I've worked closely with Jim for nearly a decade, and he's one the sharpest coaches I've ever known. I highly recommend his book Run with Power to runners who want to get an edge. - Joe Friel, founder of TrainingBible Coaching, cofounder of TrainingPeaks, and author of The Triathlete's Training Bible and The Power Meter Handbook

Power might be the ultimate training metric for runners. Power meters for running could be a game-changing breakthrough. - Competitor magazine

Chasing watts has been a revelation. Power is the only feedback...that's dead simple and actionable mid-gallop...The perfect recipe for improvement. - Wired

The power meter is the next evolution for running. - Craig Alexander, 5-time Ironman World Champion

Running power is a simple metric for all kinds of runners to understand every key aspect of running-performance, running form, and efficiency. - Danny Abshire, cofounder of Newton Running and author of Natural Running

The power meter changed the way cyclists train. It will do the same thing for running. - Allen Lim, elite cycling coach and cofounder of Skratch Labs

The art and science of using power for run training are still very much in their infancy, but coach Jim Vance spells it all out in the first detailed book on the subject...His 352-page book can give insights to unlocking performance breakthroughs for technically inclined runners of any ability level. - Competitor

I highly recommend reading Jim Vance's new book Run with Power. Knowledge is power, and power is going to revolutionize how we run. - Coach Jenny Hadfield, coauthor of Running for Mortals and Marathoning for Mortals

Run with Power was penned to explain what data you actually need when using a power and how to analyze it to get faster. - LAVA magazine

The first and only comprehensive guide to using wearable power meters. Vance explains the key numbers, what they mean, how to train and race with power, and how to improve efficiency...If you're power curious, Vance is ready to make you a full-on convert. - Triathlete magazine

This book will deliver on the promise of making you a faster runner. - Sporttracks.mobi

Training with power has been the key to my success in cycling. To have that in running is a total game changer. - Mary Beth Ellis, 8-time Ironman Champion

It looks like the future has arrived, a power meter for runners will advance training methods by decades. - Dirk Friel, cofounder of TrainingPeaks

The holy grail in running has been to discover such a factor - measuring power in running as a unit. - Bobby McGee, elite running coach and author of Run Workouts for Runners and Triathletes

Run with Power answers any question a triathlete could have with regard to power meters and running. He leaves no questions unanswered in this lengthy guide, which is worth the read for any triathlete looking to truly unlokc their potential in triathlon's final leg. - Triathlon Magazine Canada

There's no doubt the potential for running power data will be huge down the road. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just repeating the historical misbeliefs of people 15 years ago saying cycling power meters will never catch on. - DC Rainmaker

Cyclists have long used power meters to gauge their effort no matter what gear they wear or the terrain. But runners rely on pace, which doesn't tell you how hard you're working, just the final outcome. Runners also rely on heart rate, and this has its own set of problems with time lag and external variables like how much coffee you drank this morning. - Runner's World

Author Bio
Jim Vance is a TrainingBible coach and former professional triathlete. He trained under the guidance of the national team coaching staff at the US Olympic Training Center. He recorded two world championship titles as an amateur in XTERRA and International Triathlon Union. His range of performances also stretches to Ironman; he finished third overall at the 2006 Iron-man Florida in a time of 8:37:09, running a 2:54 mar-athon in that race. As the founder, team director, and head swim coach of Formula Endur-ance, a USA Triathlon High Performance Team in San Diego, Jim focused on developing youth and junior elite triathletes. He is also a Level 2 and Youth & Junior Certified Coach for USA Triathlon as well as an elite coach for Training-Bible Coaching. He has coached national champions and world championship podium finishers, both amateurs and elites. Jim has twice been named the USA elite head coach at the duathlon world championships. Jim is the author of Triathlon 2.0: Data Driven Performance Training, which teaches athletes how to use technological training tools such as power meters, GPS, and heart rate monitors for Ironman triathlon racing based on their age, gender, and goals. In 2013, Jim coedited the book Triathlon Science with best-selling endurance training author Joe Friel. Jim holds a BS in physical and health education, K-12, from the University of Nebraska, where he ran track and cross country and won two academic scholarships. He was a schoolteacher for six years before committing to triath-lon full time in 2005. He retired from triathlon competition in 2010. Jim currently resides in San Diego with his wife and two young sons. He coaches high school swimming at Coro-nado High School and coaches a number of beginner and aspiring elite triath-letes, runners, and cyclists. His website is CoachVance.com.