{"product_id":"9781472975294","title":"Out of Thin Air : Running Wisdom and Magic from above the Clouds in Ethiopia: Winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat we can learn from Ethiopian running culture - written by an anthropologist and 2:20 marathon runner who trained with the Ethiopians.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e '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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow him into the forest as he attempts to keep up and get to the heart of their success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Sport","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223860031723,"sku":"EB_SP0600_G08-02_SIMS","price":24.92,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781472975294-1.jpg?v=1781682172","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781472975294","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}