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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.

Running with the Kenyans

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 4 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780571274062
      978-0571274062
      ISBN-10 0571274064
      Also in:
      Biography Memoirs Sport Running and jogging Track and field sports, athletics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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