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'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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
Über den Autor
Michael Crawley is an anthropologist, writer and runner based in Durham. He has run a 2.20 marathon and represented Great Britain in road running. In 2019, Michael was awarded a PhD in anthropology by the University of Edinburgh, following fifteen months of research living and running alongside runners in Ethiopia. His book Out of Thin Air: Running Magic and Wisdom from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia won the prestigious Margaret Mead Award in 2022. Michael has written for the Guardian, Runners' World andTrail Running and his latest research is on endurance, self-tracking and doping which has taken him to Nepal and Mexico amongst other places.
Zusammenfassung
Bestselling running books have been written about Kenyan, Japanese and Mexican runners - this is the first to focus on Ethiopian runners and their own specialist ways of training - written by a runner who gained their trust and who spent time truly embedded in their practices over a long period of time
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Special Air
2 I Could Have Been A Mesinko Player
3 Following Each Other's Feet
4 So Good, So Far
5 Field of Dreams
6 Zigzagging to the Top
7 Crazy is Good
8 To Win in Rome Would be Like Winning 1000 Times
9 Why It Makes Sense to Run Up and Down a Hill at 3 am
10 Where Does the Energy Come From?
11 The Game is Worth the Candle
12 Taking the Air
13 Of Course They Are Trying to Kill Each Other
14 Running is Life
AcknowledgementsIndex
2 I Could Have Been A Mesinko Player
3 Following Each Other's Feet
4 So Good, So Far
5 Field of Dreams
6 Zigzagging to the Top
7 Crazy is Good
8 To Win in Rome Would be Like Winning 1000 Times
9 Why It Makes Sense to Run Up and Down a Hill at 3 am
10 Where Does the Energy Come From?
11 The Game is Worth the Candle
12 Taking the Air
13 Of Course They Are Trying to Kill Each Other
14 Running is Life
AcknowledgementsIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Genre: | Biographien |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781472975331 |
ISBN-10: | 1472975332 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Crawley, Michael |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
Maße: | 232 x 151 x 22 mm |
Von/Mit: | Michael Crawley |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.11.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,464 kg |
Über den Autor
Michael Crawley is an anthropologist, writer and runner based in Durham. He has run a 2.20 marathon and represented Great Britain in road running. In 2019, Michael was awarded a PhD in anthropology by the University of Edinburgh, following fifteen months of research living and running alongside runners in Ethiopia. His book Out of Thin Air: Running Magic and Wisdom from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia won the prestigious Margaret Mead Award in 2022. Michael has written for the Guardian, Runners' World andTrail Running and his latest research is on endurance, self-tracking and doping which has taken him to Nepal and Mexico amongst other places.
Zusammenfassung
Bestselling running books have been written about Kenyan, Japanese and Mexican runners - this is the first to focus on Ethiopian runners and their own specialist ways of training - written by a runner who gained their trust and who spent time truly embedded in their practices over a long period of time
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Special Air
2 I Could Have Been A Mesinko Player
3 Following Each Other's Feet
4 So Good, So Far
5 Field of Dreams
6 Zigzagging to the Top
7 Crazy is Good
8 To Win in Rome Would be Like Winning 1000 Times
9 Why It Makes Sense to Run Up and Down a Hill at 3 am
10 Where Does the Energy Come From?
11 The Game is Worth the Candle
12 Taking the Air
13 Of Course They Are Trying to Kill Each Other
14 Running is Life
AcknowledgementsIndex
2 I Could Have Been A Mesinko Player
3 Following Each Other's Feet
4 So Good, So Far
5 Field of Dreams
6 Zigzagging to the Top
7 Crazy is Good
8 To Win in Rome Would be Like Winning 1000 Times
9 Why It Makes Sense to Run Up and Down a Hill at 3 am
10 Where Does the Energy Come From?
11 The Game is Worth the Candle
12 Taking the Air
13 Of Course They Are Trying to Kill Each Other
14 Running is Life
AcknowledgementsIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781472975331 |
ISBN-10: | 1472975332 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Crawley, Michael |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
Maße: | 232 x 151 x 22 mm |
Von/Mit: | Michael Crawley |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.11.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,464 kg |
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