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Running journal

The 52-Week Running Journal

A week-by-week log for every mile you run.

  • 146 pages
  • 7 × 10 in paperback
  • Undated
  • Kilometres or miles
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A year of running, one week at a time.

Fifty-two weeks, one spread each. Seven daily entries on the left, the week totalled and reviewed on the right, and a chart of the distance you actually ran rather than the distance you meant to.

This journal is for everything around the numbers: which shoes you were in, how you slept, and why the last mile fell apart.

Look inside

Real pages from the book.

An open spread from The 52-Week Running Journal: A weekly spread
A weekly spread. Seven days on the left; totals, a distance chart and the review on the right.
An open spread from The 52-Week Running Journal: A block review every four weeks
A block review every four weeks. The numbers on one page, and what the numbers don't say on the other.
An open spread from The 52-Week Running Journal: The shoe log and the niggle log
The shoe log and the niggle log. Near the front, where you'll find them.

What's inside

Everything in the 146 pages.

  • Fifty-two weekly spreads. Seven daily entries with distance, time, pace, RPE and the shoes you wore, plus a line for how it went.
  • A daily distance chart on every week summary, shaded in as the week goes, so a glance tells you the shape of it.
  • Week totals. Distance, time, runs, longest run and average pace, in one strip.
  • A block review spread every four weeks. Thirteen of them, a page for the numbers and a page for what the numbers do not say, because four-week trends are real and single weeks are mostly noise.
  • A shoe log. Most pairs are done somewhere between 500 and 800 km, or 300 to 500 miles, and logging it is the only way to know where yours are.
  • A niggle log with a shoes column, so a recurring ache can be traced to what you were running in when it started.
  • Races planned and raced, with target and actual times side by side.
  • Routes and best times, for the loops you keep coming back to.
  • The year totalled block by block at the back.

Kilometres or miles

The distance columns carry no unit. Cross out the one you do not use on the profile page at the front, and every entry, total and chart in the book reads in the other.

Undated

It starts the week you do. No wasted pages if you pick it up in June, and no need to replace it in January.

It holds whatever plan you follow, or none at all. The sessions come from your coach, a published plan or your own head, and these pages record them.

The 52-Week Running Journal146 pages · 7 × 10 in paperback

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