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.

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Episode 11: Interview with Jasmin Paris

Jasmin Paris shot to global attention in January 2019 when she beat the first male finisher by almost 15 hours in the brutal 268-mile Spine ultramarathon. She has also set records on the Bob Graham Round, The Paddy Buckley Round and the Ramsay Round, won the World Sky Running Series and twice won the British hill running championships. She talks about dealing with all the media attention after winning the Spine race, about the joy of moving light and fast in the mountains, and about her plans for the future.

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Episode 10: Interview with bestselling author and runner Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson is the author of numerous bestselling books, and was played by Ewan McGregor in the film of his book The Men Who Stare At Goats. He started running 10 years ago when he saw a picture of himself standing next to George Clooney and thought he needed to get in shape. Barely a day has past since that he hasn’t gone out running. He tells us why he can’t stop, why he will never run a race, and how running feeds into his creative process.

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Episode 9: Interview with Zach Miller

Zach Miller is one of the world’s best and most exciting ultra runners with a string of impressive victories under his belt. But he is most loved for his all-out, no-holds-barred style of running, setting off in ultra marathons like they’re 5K burn-ups, leading from the front, sometimes winning, and sometimes failing - but always spectacularly. Here Zach talks to Adharanand about making his ultra running breakthrough while working on a cruise ship, living for five years off-grid halfway up a mountain in Colorado, and the appeal of pushing yourself into oblivion - and beyond.

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Episode 7: Interview with Abdi Nageeye - part one

Abdi Nageeye, born in Mogadishu in Somalia, not once, but twice escaped civil war to seek a new life in the Netherlands, the first time when he was just six years old. He now lives and trains with the great Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya and is the Dutch record holder in the half marathon and marathon, with a best time of 2hrs 6mins. Here he tells of his traumatic early life, how it made him who is today, and how he discovered his running talent by accident as an 18-year-old soccer player trying to stay in shape over the summer.

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Episode 5: Interview with Beth Pascall - part one

Beth Pascall has finished in the top four in both of the world’s most prestigious trail ultra marathons, the Western States 100 in the US, and the UTMB in Europe. She is also a doctor, but this year is taking some time out from work to concentrate on her running. Here she talks about training with her dog, how she started out in ultra running and her childhood obsession with hiking across Dartmoor.

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Episode 3: Interview with Chrissie Wellington - part one

A genuine legend in the world of endurance sport, Chrissie Wellington became Ironman world champion on her first attempt just eight months after taking up the sport of triathlon. She went on to win every Ironman she ever competed, including three further world titles. And always with a beaming smile across her face. We find out how she got started in the sport, and how she dealt with doubt, pain and setbacks during races.

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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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