The Way of the Runner
A Journey into the Obsessive World of Japanese Running
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 improv…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-571-30317-5
- EAN: 9780571303175
- Produktnummer: 19036996
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H13.0 cm x B19.8 cm x D2.3 cm 290 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 290
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Adharanand Finn is the author of Running with the Kenyans, which was the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards, and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is an editor at the Guardian and a freelance journalist. He is also a former junior cross-country runner and now competes for Torbay AC in Devon, where he and his family usually live. Follow him on @adharanand.
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