--- product_id: 1698086 title: "The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing" price: "€ 51.10" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1698086-the-big-book-of-endurance-training-and-racing store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing **Price:** € 51.10 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing - **How much does it cost?** € 51.10 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1698086-the-big-book-of-endurance-training-and-racing) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier? Learn how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free. Dr. Philip Maffetone’s approach to endurance offers a truly “individualized” outlook and unique system that emphasizes building a strong aerobic base for increased fat burning, weight loss, sustained energy, and a healthy immune system. Good nutrition and stress reduction are also key to this commonsense, big-picture approach. In addition, Dr. Maffetone dispels many of the commonly held myths that linger in participatory sports—and which adversely impact performance—and explains the “truths” about endurance, such as: The need to train slower to race faster will enable your aerobic system to improve endurance Why expensive running shoes can actually cause foot and leg injuries The fact that refined carbohydrates actually reduce endurance energy and disrupt hormone balance And more. If you are looking to increase your endurance and maximize your athletic potential, The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing is your one-stop guide to training and racing effectively. Review: Life Changing - This Book Was My Missing Link - A few years ago, I was barely able to walk, much less run. I suffered from horrendous Plantar Fasciitis in both feet that would leave me hobbled after a morning of coaching my kid's soccer team. Trips to the podiatrist, painful injections in the heels, and expensive custom orthotics didn't seem to help. I was giving up all hope when my wife and I saw Christopher McDougall, the author of "Born to Run," interviewed on the Daily Show. He described the same "icepick in the heel" pain I was having, so my wife bought his book for me as a gift. It literally changed my life, actually, considering my family history of heart disease, may have saved my life. While I have trained barefoot to work on form, I do not consider myself a barefoot runner. But, I have readjusted my gait to a very natural, mid-foot running form using Newton Running shoes. While it took a while to build up my atrophied calf muscles, less than 2 years later and 50 years old, I was running regularly without joint pain, but was still struggling every now and then with significant flu-like pain and fatigue. And my Plantar Fasciitis, the vampire bite of running injuries, was always lurking out there forcing me to take 2, sometimes even 3 rest days between runs, and when it would flare, I could be down for 2 to 3 months. In summary, I was running, I was running better, but I was still struggling more than I felt I should be. When I tried to extend my runs out to the 8 to 12 mile range, I always found a demon lurking out there in the thin air, ready to pour cement in my legs while I would bonk and my body would shut down. The dream of running a marathon seemed beyond my grasp. While researching a "100-Ups" drill on McDougall's website, I stumbled across McDougall's endorsement for Dr. Maffetone's book. I bought the Kindle edition and started reading "The Big Book on Endurance Training and Racing" and was hooked by the first few pages of the introduction. I learned that the biggest hurdle I had to get over was my male ego. I was pushing too hard and running too fast. My running partner and I were both suffering from aerobic deficiencies that we could measure with our heart rate monitors. While we could run moderate distances in the 8's and 9's, we were locomotives causing injury in our anaerobic zones, and excess weight just wasn't coming off. So, while skeptical, I decided to give the Maffetone method a try and only a month later, I am happy to report to all of you I have seen amazing improvements in my aerobic function by slowing down and following Maffetone's advice. Here are summary results from my two actual MAF tests 1 month apart. To demonstrate just how deficient my aerobic zone was, I had to slow down from my usual 9 min/mile pace to 12:37/mile average in my first 4 mile MAF test. Talk about a blow to the ego! But in the book's sidebars, you will learn that you are not alone, that even elite athletes have suffered from the same aerobic/anaerobic imbalance. So, 1 month later, at the same aerobic heart rate, my average time in my most recent MAF test has improved to 11:28/mile. Additional benefits of training aerobically and teaching my body how to burn fat is that I have lost a total of 10 pounds so far. I have left that demon behind in the dust, and I am now running a ½ marathon every weekend with plenty of gas left in the tank, and I will run my first marathon in the spring. I can even run back-to-back runs if my training schedule calls for it, which is a miracle for me considering where I've come from. And when I need to pick the pace up on race day, I find that my AHR is lower than it used to be, even when I am in the anaerobic zone, and I can gradually pick up my pace as the race progresses. I feel that Maffetone is teaching me how to build this much needed, and often overlooked base. While McDougall's book provided the inspiration for the paradigm shift I so desperately needed, I honestly believe that Maffetone's book was the missing piece to the puzzle. Get this book, get a good heart-rate monitor, set the ego aside, and enjoy pain-free progress in your running. I cannot recommend it enough. Review: Useful read for any beginner or competitive athlete - This book is (extremely) useful to competitive and amateur athletes, alike. It came highly recommended to me from a friend and he thought it would help me as much as it helped him. At that time, he was a highly competitive Ironman triathlete and I was an overweight, newbie struggling to do a 5K. That just says, this book is not just focussed on pros OR amateurs. It relates to everyone because it focusses on teaching basic principles of fitness and how our body works. Dr Maffetone touches on many important aspects that are overlooked by 90% of the people (including active/fit people!) such as aerobic vs anaerobic energy, role of carbohydrates, HR as an effective tool, using FAT as a fuel in long races (you heard it right!). Throughout the book, Phil uses examples of how he helped various athletes and non-athletes in improving their personal records and injury prevention just by improving their basics. The book itself is written in a very simple manner and is an easy read. If you are looking for 10minutes a day/ 3x per week magic workouts/schedules here... prepare to be disappointed. One has to read, digest and apply this information to their workouts and diet. Some of his concepts, might seem unconventional but they work very well. Whether you choose to follow Phil Maffetone's methodology to train for your next race or not, is upto you. But regardless, it provides a wealth of information for any enthusiast in world of endurance sports. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #167,964 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18 in Triathlons (Books) #34 in Sports Health & Safety (Books) #59 in Sports Essays (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,026 Reviews | ## Images ![The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Enk+2MBYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Life Changing - This Book Was My Missing Link *by F***K on December 16, 2011* A few years ago, I was barely able to walk, much less run. I suffered from horrendous Plantar Fasciitis in both feet that would leave me hobbled after a morning of coaching my kid's soccer team. Trips to the podiatrist, painful injections in the heels, and expensive custom orthotics didn't seem to help. I was giving up all hope when my wife and I saw Christopher McDougall, the author of "Born to Run," interviewed on the Daily Show. He described the same "icepick in the heel" pain I was having, so my wife bought his book for me as a gift. It literally changed my life, actually, considering my family history of heart disease, may have saved my life. While I have trained barefoot to work on form, I do not consider myself a barefoot runner. But, I have readjusted my gait to a very natural, mid-foot running form using Newton Running shoes. While it took a while to build up my atrophied calf muscles, less than 2 years later and 50 years old, I was running regularly without joint pain, but was still struggling every now and then with significant flu-like pain and fatigue. And my Plantar Fasciitis, the vampire bite of running injuries, was always lurking out there forcing me to take 2, sometimes even 3 rest days between runs, and when it would flare, I could be down for 2 to 3 months. In summary, I was running, I was running better, but I was still struggling more than I felt I should be. When I tried to extend my runs out to the 8 to 12 mile range, I always found a demon lurking out there in the thin air, ready to pour cement in my legs while I would bonk and my body would shut down. The dream of running a marathon seemed beyond my grasp. While researching a "100-Ups" drill on McDougall's website, I stumbled across McDougall's endorsement for Dr. Maffetone's book. I bought the Kindle edition and started reading "The Big Book on Endurance Training and Racing" and was hooked by the first few pages of the introduction. I learned that the biggest hurdle I had to get over was my male ego. I was pushing too hard and running too fast. My running partner and I were both suffering from aerobic deficiencies that we could measure with our heart rate monitors. While we could run moderate distances in the 8's and 9's, we were locomotives causing injury in our anaerobic zones, and excess weight just wasn't coming off. So, while skeptical, I decided to give the Maffetone method a try and only a month later, I am happy to report to all of you I have seen amazing improvements in my aerobic function by slowing down and following Maffetone's advice. Here are summary results from my two actual MAF tests 1 month apart. To demonstrate just how deficient my aerobic zone was, I had to slow down from my usual 9 min/mile pace to 12:37/mile average in my first 4 mile MAF test. Talk about a blow to the ego! But in the book's sidebars, you will learn that you are not alone, that even elite athletes have suffered from the same aerobic/anaerobic imbalance. So, 1 month later, at the same aerobic heart rate, my average time in my most recent MAF test has improved to 11:28/mile. Additional benefits of training aerobically and teaching my body how to burn fat is that I have lost a total of 10 pounds so far. I have left that demon behind in the dust, and I am now running a ½ marathon every weekend with plenty of gas left in the tank, and I will run my first marathon in the spring. I can even run back-to-back runs if my training schedule calls for it, which is a miracle for me considering where I've come from. And when I need to pick the pace up on race day, I find that my AHR is lower than it used to be, even when I am in the anaerobic zone, and I can gradually pick up my pace as the race progresses. I feel that Maffetone is teaching me how to build this much needed, and often overlooked base. While McDougall's book provided the inspiration for the paradigm shift I so desperately needed, I honestly believe that Maffetone's book was the missing piece to the puzzle. Get this book, get a good heart-rate monitor, set the ego aside, and enjoy pain-free progress in your running. I cannot recommend it enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Useful read for any beginner or competitive athlete *by A***. on June 18, 2013* This book is (extremely) useful to competitive and amateur athletes, alike. It came highly recommended to me from a friend and he thought it would help me as much as it helped him. At that time, he was a highly competitive Ironman triathlete and I was an overweight, newbie struggling to do a 5K. That just says, this book is not just focussed on pros OR amateurs. It relates to everyone because it focusses on teaching basic principles of fitness and how our body works. Dr Maffetone touches on many important aspects that are overlooked by 90% of the people (including active/fit people!) such as aerobic vs anaerobic energy, role of carbohydrates, HR as an effective tool, using FAT as a fuel in long races (you heard it right!). Throughout the book, Phil uses examples of how he helped various athletes and non-athletes in improving their personal records and injury prevention just by improving their basics. The book itself is written in a very simple manner and is an easy read. If you are looking for 10minutes a day/ 3x per week magic workouts/schedules here... prepare to be disappointed. One has to read, digest and apply this information to their workouts and diet. Some of his concepts, might seem unconventional but they work very well. Whether you choose to follow Phil Maffetone's methodology to train for your next race or not, is upto you. But regardless, it provides a wealth of information for any enthusiast in world of endurance sports. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The most helpful endurance training book I've read *by K***M on June 6, 2013* This is a great book. I first heard of this book when it was recommended by a medical doctor who gave a presentation on marathon training at a marathon expo I attended. I bought the book and read it cover to cover. I am not an expert in sports medicine or training... but I am an avid marathoner, ultra runner, and triathlete who is also an equally avid consumer of information regarding training and racing. This is the most complete source of information on endurance training that I have yet to see. Don't buy it expecting to learn some easy secrets to success, etc. It just contains good info - and a lot of it - on virtually everything the endurance athlete needs to know. Solid advice from a reliable source. You won't regret reading it. It may have more information than you are looking for... but certainly not less. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing - The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness - 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1698086-the-big-book-of-endurance-training-and-racing](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1698086-the-big-book-of-endurance-training-and-racing) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-07-25*