Episode 12: Interview with author Michael Crawley
Michael Crawley is the author of the brilliant new book on Ethiopian running, Out of Thin Air. A 2:20 marathon runner and an anthropologist, Michael spent 15 months embedded with a group of top Ethiopian athletes, running with them, eating their food and sleeping in their lodgings. Out of Thin Air is a fascinating exploration of one of the world’s most incredible, yet largely unknown, sporting cultures. As the author of Running with the Kenyans, Adharanand is in a unique position to interview Michael, and the two compare the differences and remarkable similarities between the world’s two greatest distance running powerhouses.
““We’d end up on our hands and knees, pulling ourselves up banks. I was thinking: this is more like hiking than the training of elite marathon runners.””
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Michael Crawley is the author of Out of Thin Air. He is on Twitter: @mphcrawley. To buy Out of Thin Air visit: https://linktr.ee/mphcrawley
Adharanand Finn is the author of three award-winning books, Running with the Kenyans (2012), The Way of the Runner (2014), and the Rise of the Ultra Runners (2019). Follow The Way of the Runner podcast on Twitter @WayoftheRunner or Instagram: @thewayoftherunner.
The Way of the Runner Podcast is sponsored by Resilient Nutrition, Kenyan Running Bands and Bookhounds.
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