LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian
'Excellent' Runner's World 'Fascinating' Publishers Weekly
'Brilliant' Ed Vaizey 'Through reading this book you will come to
understand that the heart and soul of running are to be found in
Ethiopia.' Haile Gebrselassie 'Engaging, warm and humane... A
delight' TLS 'Full of wonderful insights and lessons from a world
where the ability to run is viewed as something almost mysterious
and magical.' Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans
'Ethiopia is a place where I have been told that energy is
controlled by angels and demons and where witchdoctors can help you
to acquire another runner's power. It is a place where an anonymous
runner in the forest told me, miming an imaginary scoreboard and
with a completely straight face, that he had dreamt that he would
run 10km in 25 minutes. It is a place where they tell me that the
air at Mount Entoto will transform me into a 2.08 marathon runner.
It is a place, in short, of wisdom and magic, where dreaming is
still very much alive.' Why does it make sense to Ethiopian runners
to get up at 3am to run up and down a hill? Who would choose to
train on almost impossibly steep and rocky terrain, in hyena
territory? And how come Ethiopian men hold six of the top ten
fastest marathon times ever? Michael Crawley spent fifteen months
in Ethiopia training alongside (and sometimes a fair way behind)
runners at all levels of the sport, from night watchmen hoping to
change their lives to world class marathon runners, in order to
answer these questions. Follow him into the forest as he attempts
to keep up and get to the heart of their success.
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