Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

Winner - Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards

After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, Runner's World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family, he moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, and started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else? At the end of his journey he put his research to the test by running his first marathon, across the Kenyan plains.

This edition includes a new chapter covering the 2012 Olympics.

At £25 per book, you will also recieve 5 FREE t-shirts (purchasing the book which is exempt from VAT), so all of the fee goes to Run nation Foundation supporting the Run Kenya schools project.

Run Nation race T-Shirts - Pack of 5 - The T-shirts are a varied mix of past race t-shirts we want to give away as well as raise fund for the project in Kenya.

This product includes a pack of 5 Run Nation T-shirts (mixed stock from old races)

We will send you 5 different T-shirts of the same size (if you want a mix of sizes, please email aftermaking the order with the specific sizes)

£10 from each order goes to our Run Kenya project where we are raising money to provide shoes, clothing and school equipment for one specifc school in the Rift Valley in Kenya. One order of 5 t-shirts will provide food for a pupil for a month! Or 2 packs of 5 t-shirts will pay for a school uniform for the year.