THE new edition of a Chelworth man’s marathon training book has received praise from a national news reader.

Sophie Raworth regularly reads news on the BBC and uses Graeme Hilditch’s book The Marathon and Half Marathon: A Training Guide to train for marathons and half marathons.

The second edition of the book was released at the end of October and Sophie can not put it down.

She said: “I love this book - it's really practical and helpful, and I'm often flicking through it.”

Graeme, who is also a personal trainer, said that after reading the first edition of his book Sophie contacted him and asked for marathon training advice.

He said he was really pleased that the first edition of the book had been so successful and had received praise from Sophie.

He said:“ I am absolutely over the moon,”

The first edition of the book currently sits at 2nd place in the Amazon website's top 10 Marathon Training Book chart.

To view the book visit http://www.amazon.co.uk and search for the book title.