Finn: Running with the Kenyans

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Publikace: Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth - 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. Publikace: Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth - Adharanand Finn. Autor : Adharanand Finn, 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"Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Running with the Kenyans, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 302