I'm terrible, when I've got a Zoom call coming up - even if it's just a friendly one - I can't get anything done for at least an hour beforehand. It's like I'm just stuck in a waiting room of my own creation. (I have a feeling that's a common trait among introverts.)

"For a long time, African knowledge has been seen by the West as intuitive, superstitious and practical, and some might view the Ethiopian methodology as unscientific. We argue it may be just the opposite." Great article on the Ethiopian approach to running … aeon.co/essays/what-...

"It always starts as a flicker in the background of my feed. A name keeps popping up. In this case, a diminutive figure in a bright tracksuit top covered in cartoons, wearing funky white sunglasses." adharanand.substack.com/p/rachel-ent...

This feels a bit mad ... a sign of the times, perhaps www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Big news in the ultra running world as Rachel Entrekin smashes the overall course record (men and women) in the 250-mile Cocodona 250. Insane running. Courtney Dauwalter was 2nd woman and 6th overall. One runner died early in the race ... run247.com/running-news...

Megan Boxall set off in Oct 2025 to run 200 marathons in 200 days around the coast of Great Britain. She tells the Way of the Runner podcast why she is doing it, and what she has learned about Britain - and herself - along the way. To listen to the full episode visit thewayoftherunner.com/podcast

What songs am I missing?

BBC 6 Music has a regular slot featuring "very specific playlists". Of course I have one about running. Not good songs to run to, but songs about running - some more explicitly than others, but all songs a runner can hear as being actually about running ... open.spotify.com/playlist/6qh...

Holy (big) smoke! I remember the days when running was considered a bit niche and people thought I was odd www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Like the Wind featured my 2024 essay on the sub-2hr marathon in its newsletter today (you can subscribe here: www.likethewindmagazine.com/sign-up/) about the pitfalls of obsessing over such barriers. A few snippets from the piece below ...

I'm still blown away by the sub-2hr marathon, but I was thinking about the shoes. They clearly help the elites, but my feeling purely from anecdotal evidence is that they're not much helping mid-packers running between 3hrs and 5hrs. Anyone in that range feel the shoes have transformed their times?

I had quite a lot to write about in my Monday Musings this week ... open.substack.com/pub/adharana...

Well done Jasmin Paris! @thegreenrunners.bsky.social

1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. One of the greatest ever sporting feats.

I know some will raise their eyebrows and say these mind-blowing marathon times in London must be down to doping, so it's worth pointing out Sawe has been undergoing an unusually rigorous testing process for the last two years in an effort to prove he is clean www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

Sawe and Kejelcha ran the 10K from 30km to 40km in the London marathon today in 27:36. If you've ever run a 10K, you'll know just how insanely fast that is for a 10K mid-marathon.

No one.....we mean NO ONE has ever hit splits like this!

THE GREATEST RUN IN HISTORY 🤯 Sabastian Sawe takes OVER A MINUTE off the world record in the marathon and becomes the first-ever sub-2 hour runner in an official race with a 1:59:30 victory over Yomif Kejelcha, who also breaks two hours in his debut marathon, running 1:59:41 for second.

Just found your podcast, how has it taken me so long??!

Sawe ran the SECOND half of the marathon today in 59:00. Unreal

Imagine running a marathon in 1:59:41 and finishing in second place. #londonmarathon26

Oh my god, 1:59:30. Mind blown.

Sawe chucks in a 4:23 mile in the London marathon. Imagine dropping Jacob Kiplimo. (Although he's not totally gone yet.) Kejelcha in his debut simply cruising along. Wow.

Incredible race going down in the women's London marathon right now ...

The leading women look like they're hammering a 5K, not running a marathon. It never fails to blow my mind how fast they run. They've just hit 10 in 31:03. Man! #londonmarathon26

Settling in to watch the London Marathon. The elite women's field feels so small - maybe 25 athletes? You would imagine the world's best marathon could stump up for twice that in the elite field. As it is, so many of them will get left running most of the race completely alone, which isn't easy.

If you're running the London marathon this weekend rather than doomscrolling (which is surprisingly energy sapping), put on the Way of the Runner podcast, sit back, close your eyes and chill. Amazing list of guests to choose from, from Eliud Kipchoge to Jasmin Paris thewayoftherunner.com/podcast

Now on Patreon (www.patreon.com/c/adharanand...) ... edited version coming soon to The Way of the Runner podcast

Just watched this film about Free to Run, a project set up to help women in Afghanistan run outside, but which collapsed when the Taliban re-took the country in 2021. Very moving, and puts things in perspective, how lucky (most of us) are to have our freedoms www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Le...

“I love the burn up of a 5K, the elbows out, the fight-every-step energy, the full-throttle running, the lack of palaver, the streamlined simplicity of it. Bam, go hard, hold on, it’s done, buzzing mate.” open.substack.com/pub/adharana...

Last year I set myself a goal to run a 5K in under 18 minutes (something I hadn't done since 2017). "Breaking-18" I called it. A few weeks ago I finally did it, running 17:46 at a parkrun. But just to erase any doubts, I did it again last night in a bona fide race www.strava.com/activities/1...

This is very sad to read ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Because Trump is like a doctor, always ready to help people. Not like Jesus, just a doctor ... see?

Ooh, this looks good @thegreenrunners.bsky.social ... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

I'm getting more and more emails - almost daily now - from people sharing, in some depth, how much they loved one of my books, and then offering some sort of way of sharing them with their wonderful online community. I'm sure they're all AI written as they all sound so similar. I followed up … (1/2)

This is stupid and annoying on so many levels, but also completely unsurprising www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Deeply depressing that, on Lebanon, media is focussed on the technical wording of the ceasefire deal - rather than pointing out that killing 100s of civilians in their homes is a war crime and abomination either way. (📸 AFP/Getty)

A picture of me running the Lewa Marathon in Kenya in 2011 (taken by Marietta) has been used to illustrate a piece on 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Marathon' in this month's Runner's World UK. Great shot, great moment ... you may recall it from the end of my book Running with the Kenyans.

Fancy a podcast to listen to? Give The Way Of The Runner’s pod a listen 🎧 Two Green Runners, @adharanand.bsky.social & @ultradamo.bsky.social, talk Barkley and Damo share’s insights from his new book, Run Forever: The Secrets To Becoming An Ageless Athlete. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

An Easter read for my Patreon subscribers: a lost chapter, cut from the final edit of Running with the Kenyans, detailing our harried departure from the UK, and our first two weeks in Kenya, before we finally made it to Iten and the runners: www.patreon.com/posts/arrivi...

A @seaningle.bsky.social profile on Cooper Lutkenhaus ... that's got to be worth a read ... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Turns out this was an April Fools prank played on me by my son! (A creative one, I have to give him that 😂)

The latest episode of The Way of the Runner podcast is out, featuring ultra runner, campaigner and author Damian Hall - still an elite athlete at 50 - sharing some of the insights from his new book: Run Forever - The Secrets To Becoming An Ageless Athlete. Listen here: thewayoftherunner.com/podcast

My Mac just suddenly started autocorrecting the words "the" to "jiggle" and "and" to "piggy". What the hell!? Anyone else get that? (I have now fixed it, but I'm bemused as to why it started doing it.)

Point well made ...

The spirit of the people in Gaza never ceases to amaze me. Also the simple power of running to unite ...

Disappointed to see that The Killers are going to close The Enhanced Games. Not a good look

On my Patreon book club we read Murakami's This Is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. A little surprisingly it wasn't a hit, with most people saying it was disappointing, disjointed and with no real insights. I personally liked it, but of the 20 books we've read so far, it ranks only at 17

It was such an amazing day for a run on Dartmoor today that I just had to bring my camera. Great fun bounding around with the lads, Colum, Dan and Jeremy.

If you've got a copy of this month's Runner's World magazine (April edition), check out my story of racing the dying light (and the rising tide) ...