EAN: 9780571303175

ADHARANAND FINN - GEBRAUCHT THE WAY OF THE RUNN...

Welcome to Japan  the most running-obsessed nation on earth  where: a long-distance relay race
is the country's 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.

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