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A voyage into Japan's fabled running culture from the award-winning author of Jogging with the Kenyans. Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed region on earth, a place where a 135-mile relay race is the country's biggest total annual sporting event. A large number of professional runners remain competitive for corporate clubs in some of the most competitive races on the globe. Marathon monks run a thousand marathons in a thousand days to attain spiritual enlightenment. Adharanand Finn put in half a year immersed in this original running culture to discover what it could train us about the sport and about Japan. As an amateur runner going to flip 40, he also hoped to learn whether the Japanese method of training might help him run faster. What he learned - about competition, teamwork, form, chasing after personal bests and himself - will fascinate anyone keen to explore why we run and how exactly we might do it better.
