From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the
story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running
communities from England to Ethiopia-9 countries, 72 host families,
and over 3,500 miles of running-investigating unique cultural
approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of
runners all over the world. Fresh off a successful collegiate
running career-with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two
Olympic Trials qualifying marks to her name-Becky Wade was no
stranger to international competition. But after years spent safely
sticking to the training methods she knew, Becky was curious about
how her counterparts in other countries approached the sport to
which she'd dedicated over half of her life. So in 2012, as a
recipient of the Watson Fellowship, she packed four pairs of
running shoes, cleared her schedule for the year, and took off on a
journey to infiltrate diverse running communities around the world.
What she encountered far exceeded her expectations and changed her
outlook into the sport she loved. Over the next twelve
months-visiting 9 countries with unique and storied running
histories, logging over 3,500 miles running over trails, tracks,
sidewalks, and dirt roads-Becky explored the varied approaches of
runners across the globe. Whether riding shotgun around the streets
of London with Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt, climbing for
an hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia's Mount Entoto just to
start her daily run, or getting lost jogging through the bustling
streets of Tokyo, Becky's unexpected adventures, keen insights, and
landscape descriptions take the reader into the heartbeat of
distance running around the world. Upon her return to the United
States, she incorporated elements of the training styles she'd
sampled into her own program, and her competitive career
skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2013, winning the
race in a blazing 2:30, she became the third-fastest woman
marathoner under the age of 25 in U.S. history, qualifying for the
2016 Olympic Trials and landing a professional sponsorship from
Asics. From the feel-based approach to running that she learned
from the Kenyans, to the grueling uphill workouts she adopted from
the Swiss, to the injury-recovery methods she learned from the
Japanese, Becky shares the secrets to success from runners and
coaches around the world. The story of one athlete's fascinating
journey, Run the World is also a call to change the way we approach
the world's most natural and inclusive sport.
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