Adharanand Finn is an editor at the Guardian and a freelance journalist, writing regular features for the Guardian, the Independent and Runners World. He is also a Torbay Athletic Club member and trains in Jon Parkinson Level 6 group on a Tuesday when he not travelling the world researching and writing running books. Last year Adharanand Finn packed up his family and moved from Devon to the small town of Iten, in Kenya, home to hundreds of the countrys best athletes and arguably the running capital of the world. Once there he ventured out onto the dirt tracks, running side by side with Olympic champions, young hopefuls and barefoot schoolchildren. He ate their food, slept in their training camps, interviewed their coaches, and woke up at 5am to do hill workouts. Finn wrote a book about his adventure. The book is called Running with the Kenyans. Many Torbay Athletic Club members have already read his book. The book Won the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year.Finn also deservedly won the Best New Writer award at the 2013 British Sports Book Awards for Running with the Kenyans. The main character in Finns book is about a Kenyan Athlete called Japhet Koech. Japhet was Finns neighbour in Iten. They trained together for 6 months. Japhet is like many Kenyan dreaming to become a world best athlete. Where Japhet live, the people there have only two choices, be poor farming or try and become a top Kenyan athlete and be a wealthy Kenyan. Japhet has for many years been training hard. Japhet is a Torbay Athletic Club Facebook member and has become friends with many club members.He also became friends with Ray Wilson when Ray had his nasty injury at the Erme Valley Relays. On Sunday 25th May 2014 Japhet has been invited to run the Edinburgh Marathon and the race organisers have offer Japhet some money towards his travel expenses. We have plan at Torbay Athletic Club to bring Japhet from Kenya to our Club on Tuesday before his marathon on 20th May. This will give our members a chance to meet and run with Japhet. But we need to help Finn raise £850 by Thursday 27th February, Finn has set up a Crowdfunder account so club members and non members can pledge money to bring Japhet to the UK and also to Torbay. How the £850 money will be spent Transport from his home town in Kenyas Rift Valley to Edinburgh (excluding Nairobi to London flight): £300 Visa and other admin costs: £300 Food and accommodation in the UK: £150 Other misc costs: £100
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:41:14 +0000
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