Running with the Kenyans

Informationen zum Autor Adharanand Finn is the author of Running with the Kenyans (2012), The Way of the Runner (2015) and The Rise of the Ultra Runners (2019). The first of these was the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is a journalist at the Guardian and also writes regularly for the Financial Times , the Independent , Runner's World , Men's Health and many others. Klappentext Tells the remarkable story of Adharanand Finn's personal quest to discover the secrets of some of the world's greatest runners, inspired by years of watching Kenyan athletes win renowned races in the Olympics and other major marathons. 'I've seldom read a better account of the exhilaration of running' "Evening Standard" Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth by Adharanand Finn is an epic personal quest to discover the remarkable secrets of the world's greatest runners. Zusammenfassung After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, the author sets out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. He moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, and started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else?

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Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth by Adharanand Finn is an epic personal quest to discover the remarkable secrets of the world's greatest runners.

Auteur
Adharanand Finn is the author of Running with the Kenyans (2012), The Way of the Runner (2015) and The Rise of the Ultra Runners (2019). The first of these was the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is a journalist at the Guardian and also writes regularly for the Financial Times, the Independent, Runner's World, Men's Health and many others.

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Tells the remarkable story of Adharanand Finn's personal quest to discover the secrets of some of the world's greatest runners, inspired by years of watching Kenyan athletes win renowned races in the Olympics and other major marathons. 'I've seldom read a better account of the exhilaration of running' "Evening Standard"

Résumé
After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, the author sets out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. He moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, and started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else?