Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance (Runner's World Complete Books)

Not just for women. This guide provides great advice for all runner levels. It is especially useful for people trying to get back into running, beginners, and not-too-fiercely-competitive runners. One chapter is devoted to pregnant runners and one to women and body image, but the training schedule is not gender-specific. She provides a nice, gradual, 8-week transition into running for beginners and returners that is chock full of the basics of good running sense. Provides some decent diagrams on stretching, but personally I prefer the active isolated stretching techniques of Jim and Phil Wharton.

There were a lot of chapters that will apply more once I get out of the raw beginner phase, but that's a plus. I feel like this book will grow with me as a runner.

I feel I already knew most of the info. Seemed aimed at very beginers.