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\nBecky Wade Firth is a professional runner and the author of Run the World: My 3\,500 -Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe. Her work also appears in publications such as Outside Magazine\, Runner&rsquo\;s World\ , Women&rsquo\;s Running\, and PodiumRunner. Having recently moved back to her home state of Texas\, when she&rsquo\;s not running or writing\, she& rsquo\;s probably coaching\, cooking\, reading\, or spending time with fam ily and friends.
\nAbout the book:
\nFrom elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the s tory of her year-long exploration of diverse global running communities fr om England to Ethiopia&mdash\;9 countries\, 72 host families\, and over 3\ ,500 miles of running&mdash\;investigating unique cultural approaches to t he sport and revealing the secrets to the success of runners all over the world.
\nFresh off a successful collegiate running career&m dash\;with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two Olympic Trials qualif ying marks to her name&mdash\;Becky Wade was no stranger to international competition. But after years spent safely sticking to the training methods she knew\, Becky was curious about how her counterparts in other countrie s approached the sport to which she&rsquo\;d dedicated over half of her li fe. So in 2012\, as a recipient of the Watson Fellowship\, she packed four pairs of running shoes\, cleared her schedule for the year\, and took off on a journey to infiltrate diverse running communities around the world. What she encountered far exceeded her expectations and changed her outlook into the sport she loved.
\nOver the next twelve months&md ash\;visiting 9 countries with unique and storied running histories\, logg ing over 3\,500 miles running over trails\, tracks\, sidewalks\, and dirt roads&mdash\;Becky explored the varied approaches of runners across the gl obe. Whether riding shotgun around the streets of London with Olympic cham pion sprinter Usain Bolt\, climbing for an hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia&rsquo\;s Mount Entoto just to \;start \;her daily run\, o r getting lost jogging through the bustling streets of Tokyo\, Becky&rsquo \;s unexpected adventures\, keen insights\, and landscape descriptions tak e the reader into the heartbeat of distance running around the world.
\nUpon her return to the United States\, she incorporated eleme nts of the training styles she&rsquo\;d sampled into her own program\, and her competitive career skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2 013\, winning the race in a blazing 2:30\, she became the third-fastest wo man marathoner under the age of 25 in U.S. history\, qualifying for the 20 16 Olympic Trials and landing a professional sponsorship from Asics.< /p>\n
From the feel-based approach to running that she learned from the Kenyans\, to the grueling uphill workouts she adopted from the Swiss\, to the injury-recovery methods she learned from the Japanese\, Becky shar es the secrets to success from runners and coaches around the world. The s tory of one athlete&rsquo\;s fascinating journey\, \;Run the World&nbs p\;is also a call to change the way we approach the world&rsquo\;s most na tural and inclusive sport.
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