Episode 2: Interview with Ronnie O’Sullivan
Not a lot of people know it, but snooker legend Ronnie ‘the Rocket’ O’Sullivan is a seriously fast runner. He tells Adharanand about the difference between the buzz from snooker and the buzz from running, about how the running club is his church, and about his dream to train in Kenya and to run a marathon.
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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). He has run 10 ultra marathons and has a road marathon best time of 2 hrs 50 mins. He is also a freelance journalist writing for the Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and many others.
Adharanand hosts a series of running camps and writing retreats in Dartmoor, Chamonix and Iten, Kenya.
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