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01445aam a2200265 4500 001 AB2EADA2DA3111EB950CCE9F56ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210701010029 008 201121s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1472975324 020 $a 9781472975324 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Crawley, Michael. 245 1 $a Out of Thin Air : $b Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia. 264 1 $a New York : $b St Martins Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 272 p. 520 $a Why does it make sense to Ethiopian runners to get up at 3am to run up and down a hill? Who would choose to train on almost impossibly steep and rocky terrain, in hyena territory? And how come Ethiopian men hold six of the top ten fastest marathon times ever? Michael Crawley spent fifteen months in Ethiopia training alongside (and sometimes a fair way behind) runners at all levels of the sport, from night watchmen hoping to change their lives to world class marathon runners, in order to answer these questions. Follow him into the forest as he attempts to keep up and get to the heart of their success. 541 $d 20210114. 650 7 $a Sports & Recreation / Running and Jogging. 650 $a Marathon Running $v Biography. 650 $a Running $x Training. 651 $a Ethiopia. 941 $a 1 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310012615.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB2EADA2DA3111EB950CCE9F56ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search