From the back cover:

"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."

Sent to Hustabello for the Intl RABCK sweeps!

Received as part of the INtl RABCK sweepstakes. Thank you, this one was on my wish list, looking forward to reading it.

Fantastic book, an interesting story but so informative at the same time. It's inspired me to start running again. Perfect timing too as it was the London Marathon on the weekend.

Given to a friend who is an awesome runner as I'm sure he will enjoy the book.