Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe Audiobook (Free)

From top notch marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration of diverse global working communities from England to Ethiopia-9 countries, 72 sponsor families, and over 3,500 kilometers of running-investigating unique cultural approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets towards the achievement of runners all over the world.

Fresh off a successful collegiate working career-with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two Olympic Trials qualifying marks to her name-Becky about Run the Globe: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Ethnicities Around the Globe Wade was no stranger to international competition. But after years spent properly sticking to the training methods she knew, Becky was curious about how her counterparts in other countries approached the sport to which she’d dedicated over half of her existence. Therefore in 2012, like a receiver of the Watson Fellowship, she packed four pairs of running shoes, cleared her schedule for the entire year, and took off on a trip to infiltrate different running communities around the world. What she came across much exceeded her objectives and changed her outlook in to the sport she cherished.

Over the next twelve months-visiting 9 countries with original and storied operating histories, logging over 3,500 kilometers running over trails, tracks, sidewalks, and dirt roads-Becky explored the varied approaches of runners across the globe. Whether using shotgun across the streets of London with Olympic champ sprinter Usain Bolt, climbing for one hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia’s Support Entoto merely to start her daily work, or getting dropped jogging through the bustling streets of Tokyo, Becky’s unforeseen adventures, eager insights, and landscaping descriptions consider the reader into the heartbeat of range playing around the world.

Upon her go back to the United States, she incorporated elements of working out styles she’d sampled into her own program, and her competitive career skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2013, winning the race in a blazing 2:30, she became the third-fastest female marathoner under the age of 25 in U.S. history, qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Studies and landing a specialist sponsorship from Asics.

Through the feel-based method of operating that she discovered from your Kenyans, to the grueling uphill workout routines she adopted through the Swiss, to the injury-recovery methods she learned from the Japanese, Becky shares the secrets to success from runners and coaches around the world. The story of 1 athlete’s fascinating trip, Run the Globe can be a call to change just how we approach the world’s easiest and inclusive sport.