Podcasts by The Way of the Runner - conversations on running with Adharanand Finn
Award-winning author Adharanand Finn talks to runners of every kind about the joy and experience of running.
Adharanand is the author of three award-winning books, Running with the Kenyans (2012), The Way of the Runner (2014), and the Rise of the Ultra Runners (2019). Follow The Way of the Runner podcast on Instagram @thewayoftherunner
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Interview with new marathon sensation Calli Thackery from 2023-11-09T16:25
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Calli Thackery after she ran the second-fastest marathon ever by a British woman, in her first ever marathon. Calli...
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Interview with Italy's new marathon star Iliass Aouani from 2023-10-06T08:20
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Iliass Aouani, who recently broke the Italian marathon record, running 2:07 in only his third marathon. The former Syracuse University standout talks about his ...
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Is ultra running bad for you? Interview with leading exercise scientist Nick Tiller from 2023-09-05T11:30
Author Adharanand Finn speaks to Nick Tiller, exercise scientist at Harbor-UCLA and author of The Skeptics Guide to Sports Science. They examine the value of scientific consensus, the...
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Interview with World Mountain Running champion Grayson Murphy from 2023-07-21T11:32:08
Author Adharanand Finn chats with the double World Mountain Running Champion Grayson Murphy about how she learned to trail run by playing football, what it feels like to run away from...
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Tales from a six-day race in France - with Bob Hearn from 2023-06-08T10:42:01
Author Adharanand Finn shares stories from his recent six-day race around a 1km loop in France, including recordings he made during the race. He also talks to the race winner, Bob Hearn, from th...
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The Self-Transcendence 3100 finishers from 2023-04-11T22:52:54
Author Adharanand Finn talks to three finishers of the world's longest race: the Self-Transcendence 3100. Kobi Oren, William Sichel and Susan Marshall recall the pain and ecstasy of running 3,10...
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Interview with ultra runner Tom Evans from 2023-03-20T18:28:26
Author Adharanand Finn chats with ultra runner Tom Evans about recovering from injury, finishing third at the UTMB, and how he copes with the pain cave. Music by Starfrosch
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Interview with running author Richard Askwith from 2023-01-27T05:00
Host Adharanand Finn chats to award-winning author and runner Richard Askwith about his new book The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running. Music by Starfrosch
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Interview with five-time Olympian Jo Pavey from 2022-12-16T05:00
Author Adharanand Finn chats with five-time Olympian and European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey about training for big races with two kids in tow, racing against drug cheats, and r...
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Love Trails talks and tales of the CCC from 2022-09-13T14:39:21
Recorded live from Chamonix in France a week after Adharanand ran the 100km CCC race, this episode also features talks recorded at the Love Trails festival by authors Sabrina Pace-Humphreys and ...
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Interview with fell running punk and author Boff Whalley from 2022-06-16T05:47:49
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Interview with fell running punk and author Boff Whalley from 2022-06-16T05:47:49
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Interview with Jake Smith from 2022-04-07T05:30
Author Adharanand Finn talks to young British half marathon sensation Jake Smith about accidentally running his first marathon, training in Uganda, and gunning ...
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Interview with Dan Lawson from 2022-02-11T05:45
Author Adharanand Finn talks to record-breaking ultra athlete Dan Lawson about running the length of the UK, designing running shoes from the waste scraps of old ones, and embracing the wonderfu...
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Interview with Zane Robertson from 2022-01-06T05:15
Author Adharanand Finn talks to Olympic athlete and 59-minute half marathon runner Zane Roberston about moving to Kenya age 17, beating the best in the world, and getting one back over his criti...
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Interview with Camille Herron from 2021-11-19T05:13
Adharanand Finn talks to multiple world-record breaking ultra runner Camille Herron, and also to Abichal Sherrington, one of the few British runners ever to complete the world's longest race. Mu...
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How Robbie Britton helped me run 24 hours around a track from 2021-10-10T15:42:34
Host Adharanand Finn has some big news to share about his next book, which leads him to take on a 24-hour track race, with some help from top ultra r...
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Interview with Rosie Swale-Pope MBE from 2021-07-15T11:50:28
Rosie Swale-Pope MBE talks to Adharanand Finn about her many running adventures, including her record-breaking run around the entire world. Produced by @IAmTheHow. Music: Starfrosch.
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Interview with Sonia O’Sullivan from 2021-06-10T11:28:30
Adharanand Finn talks to one of the greatest track runners of all-time, Sonia O’Sullivan, the winner of three world titles and an Olympic silver medal during her glittering career. She is now co...
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Interview with Damian Hall from 2021-05-05T11:57:22
Adharanand Finn talks FKTs, being an inspiring parent, the hero complex and writing books about running with one of the world’s toughest ultra runners, Damian Hall, who holds the record on the U...
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Interview with Eddie Izzard and form expert Jae Gruenke from 2021-03-24T12:33:11
Adharanand Finn talks barefoot running, epic challenges and dung beetles with comedian Eddie Izzard, while Jae Gruenke teaches us how Feldenkrais can help you to run better. In January 2021, Edd...
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Interview with author Michael Crawley from 2021-02-09T23:44:44
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 ...
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Interview with Jasmin Paris from 2020-12-31T17:23:37
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 Gra...
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Interview with ultra runner Zach Miller from 2020-08-07T15:56:09
Zach Miller is one of the world’s best and most exciting ultra runners with a string of impressive victories, but he is most loved for his all-out, no-holds-barred style of running, setting off ...
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Interview with Abdi Nageeye - part two from 2020-05-31T22:14:37
Part two of our conversation with 2:06 marathon runner Abdi Nageeye, in which he talks about the best piece of advice Eliud Kipchoge ever gave him, the reason why doping is such a big problem in...
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Interview with Beth Pascall - part two from 2020-03-11T09:51:54
Part two of our conversation with top ultra runner Beth Pascall, in which she talks about the joy of running hundreds of miles at a time, how she accidentally made the British team for the world...
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Interview with Beth Pascall - part one from 2020-03-11T09:42:28
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 ...
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Interview with Chrissie Wellington - part two from 2020-02-12T09:40:53
Part two of our conversation with four-time world Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington, in which she tells us about life after retirement, missing the intensity and the highs of elite-level spor...
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Interview with Chrissie Wellington - part one from 2020-02-12T09:39:57
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 ...
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Interview with Ronnie O'Sullivan from 2020-01-12T17:00
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 fro...
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Series lift-off from 2020-01-01T17:00
Adharanand introduces the all-new The Way of the Runner podcast series in a short chat with his producer Dave Clarke on a wet morning in south Devon. He explains how the podcast is an extension ...
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Series lift-off from 2020-01-01T17:00
Adharanand introduces the all-new The Way of the Runner podcast series in a short chat with his producer Dave Clarke on a wet morning in south Devon. He explains how the podcast is an extension ...
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Series lift-off from 2020-01-01T17:00
Adharanand introduces the all-new The Way of the Runner podcast series in a short chat with his producer Dave Clarke on a wet morning in south Devon. He explains how the podcast is an extension ...
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