Running with the Kenyans

Adharanand's new book THE RUNNING PILGRIM is available to pre-order now!**An epic personal quest to discover the remarkable secrets of the world's greatest runners, by one of the most respected writers in the field.SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARBEST NEW WRITER AT THE 2012 BRITISH SPORTS AWARD'I've seldom read a better account of the exhilaration of running . . . Finn is unusually engaging company both on and off the track' EVENING STANDARDAfter 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.)