Preface

I have been slowly getting into sport since the March of 2025 and have ultimately made it to a point where I can do sport after a lot of false starts.

I started with running several times, but after a few days or weeks, I stopped. But this time I actually enjoy it and am getting better at it week by week. Last year was the first time I crossed 150km in a year mark. It is little volume, but this time I was consistent.

The book is for people in similar situations like I was. The idea is to provide a roadmap to get good at running and enjoy when you come from a place which is really really far away from baseline fitness that is assumed in most of the resources.

It is a book I wish I had when I started.

For example, I started at a piece of 10:30/km and all the advice I found was at the level of ’ you are a slow runner, meaning you run at 07:30/km’ I am barely touching trust after one year of work. I want to write for people like me who were never athletic and now try to do this. #howtorunning