Adharanand Finn

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Winner Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world s biggest long distance races Runner s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast and to see if he could keep up Packing up his family 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 At the end of his journey he put his research to the test by running his first marathon across the Kenyan plains This edition includes a new chapter covering the 2012 Olympics

Finn has written the definitive book on ultra running today. I couldnt put it down. - Dean KarnazesEpic ... A triumphant, emotive and moving account of the transformative force of mind over matter. - Irish Times ***Marathons are no longer enough. Pain is to be relished, not avoided. Hallucinations are normal. Ultra running defies conventional logic. Yet this most brutal and challenging sport is now one of the fastest-growing in the world. Why is this? Is it an antidote to modern life, or a symptom of a modern illness? Adharanand Finn travelled to the heart of the sport to find out - and to see if he could become an ultra runner himself. His journey took him from the deserts of Oman to the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies, and on to his ultimate goal, the 105-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.The Rise of the Ultra Runners is the electrifying, inspirational account of what he learned along the way. Through encounters with the sports many colourful characters and his experiences of its soaring highs and crushing lows, Finn offers an unforgettable insight into what can be found at the boundaries of human endeavour.

Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearShortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardWinner - Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the worlds biggest races, from the Olympics to big city marathons, Runners World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover just what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family (and his running shoes), he moved from Devon to the small town of Iten, in Kenya, home to hundreds of the countrys best athletes. Once there he laced up his shoes and ventured out onto the dirt tracks, running side by side with Olympic champions, young hopefuls and barefoot schoolchildren. He ate their food, slept in their training camps, interviewed their coaches, and his children went to their schools. And at the end of it all, there was his dream, to join the best of the Kenyan athletes in his first marathon, an epic race through lion country across the Kenyan plains.

Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, where: a long-distance relay race is the countrys biggest annual sporting event; companies sponsor their own running teams, paying the athletes like employees; and marathon monks run a thousand marathons in a thousand days to reach spiritual enlightenment.Adharanand Finn - award-winning author of Running with the Kenyans - moved to Japan to discover more about this unique running culture and what it might teach us about the sport and about Japan. As an amateur runner about to turn forty, he also hoped find out whether the Japanese approach to training might help him keep improving. What he learned - about competition, about team work, about beating your personal bests, about form and about himself - will fascinate anyone who is keen to explore why we run, and how we might do it better.

Un viaje al mítico mundo del running japonés.«Una gran mirada a la carrera de larga distancia en Japón. Si te gustó Correr con los keniatas, seguro que disfrutarás con este libro.»Athletics WeeklyBie

Una búsqueda epica y personal para descubrir los extraordinarios secretos de los mejores corredores del mundo. Tras ver durante años cómo los atletas keniatas ganaban las principales carreras de larga distancia en todo el mundo, Adharanand Finn emprendio la tarea de descubrir por que son tan rapidos y, de paso, comprobar si era capaz de seguir su ritmo. Preparo a la familia y abandono Devon para mudarse a la pequeña ciudad de Iten, en Kenia, tierra natal de cientos de los mejores atletas del pais y, sin lugar a dudas, capital mundial del atletismo. Una vez alli, se calzo las zapatillas y se lanzo a la aventura por las pistas de tierra, corriendo en compañia de campeones olimpicos, jovenes esperanzados y colegiales descalzos. Comio lo mismo que ellos, durmio en sus campamentos de entrenamiento y se desperto a las cinco de la mañana para salir a correr por las mismas cuestas que ellos. Al final del camino lo esperaba el sueño de unirse a los mejores atletas de Kenia en su primer maraton, una carrera epica por el territorio de los leones, en plena llanura keniata. Correr con los keniatas es a la vez una investigacion y un trayecto personal que interesara a cualquiera que en algun momento se haya preguntado po

Bienvenidos a Japón, la nación más obsesionada con el running, un país con una cultura de la carrera a pie distinta de cualquier otra: una carrera de relevos de 217 kilómetros (el ekiden) constituye