Titles in this setThe Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human EnduranceFormat:PaperbackISBN-10 : 1783351322ISBN-13 : 978-1783351329ISBN-13 : 9781783351329Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people onFormat:PaperbackISBN-10 : 0571274064ISBN-13 : 978-0571274062ISBN-13 : 9780571274062Descripiton The Rise of the Ultra Runners: 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. Running with the Kenyans: 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. |