237: Interest Edition: Adharanand Finn, Best Selling Author, ‘Running with the Kenyans’, ‘The Way of the Runner’, & ‘The Rise of the Ultras’
The Physical Performance Show
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The History of Ultra Running
The first fell race in the UK is dated 1000 the year 1,086 so almost a thousand years ago there being examples of kind of wages where like often wealthy men either the wager of one against the other they could run like a thousand miles around this field how long it would take them. These guys became big stars and and it all kind of petered out with invention of soccer and and cycle race kind of the same thing they did six day races but it was more dramatic because everyone was falling off and crashing it was a bit quicker. Some of those records lasted almost a hundred years pretty much to a Yannick's chorus turn up and and broke them all pretty much in like
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