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Adharanand Finn

Adharanand Finn is a former assistant production editor for the Guardian and a freelance writer and author

June 2024

  • Australian swimmer and former Olympian James Magnussen who will compete in the Enhanced Games, photographed in Sydney, Jun 2024

    ‘Imagine if a 60-year-old broke Usain Bolt’s record’: the story behind the Enhanced Games, the Olympics where everyone dopes

    It’s got billionaires, world champions and director Ridley Scott’s company on board. But would an athletics competition where taking drugs is encouraged put the honesty back in sport – or cause rifts, risks and addictions?

November 2022

  • On top of the world: a racer undertaking the Ultra tour du Mont Blanc with a distance of 166km and a total elevation gain of around 9,600m. The fastest runners will complete it in under 24 hours.

    Running the Mont Blanc ultra, the world’s most famous trail race

    With its dizzying ridges and stunning views, Mont Blanc is home to some of the world’s best trail running

December 2021

  • Adharanand Finn learning to dive at the Plymouth Life Centre.

    Escape your comfort zone!
    Escape your comfort zone: I am on a diving board the height of a two-storey building. Can I take the plunge?

    I have always wanted to be a diver. So at the centre where Tom Daley once trained, I aim to graduate to a five-metre board – arms locked, bend, one, two, go …

August 2021

  • Rescue workers at the site of the accident where extreme cold killed participants of a 100km ultramarathon race in Gansu province, China, on 22 May 22 2021

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: the danger – and beauty – of ultrarunning

    After 21 competitors died during a 100km mountain race in Gansu province earlier this year, the Chinese government suspended all extreme sports. But those who love ultrarunning insist it can be safe – and has changed how they see the world. What keeps them coming back?

June 2021

  • Competitors in the Marathon des Sables in the Moroccan Sahara desert, 2018.

    Today in Focus
    The danger – and beauty – of ultrarunning

  • Stories, songs and ad-libbing … Daniel Bye, left, and Boff Whalley.

    ‘It’s a love letter to adventure’: the mud-spattered show about jogging

November 2020

  • Club runners compete in a half marathon in Sebeta - CREDIT MICHAEL CRAWLEY

    Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley review – the secrets of marathon success

    An inspiring study by an international runner and anthropologist who goes to Ethiopia to find out why east Africa’s long-distance runners lead the world

January 2020

  • Kingston city in Jamaica sunset

    Cool running: Jamaica's Kingston marathon

    A race around the capital lures Adharanand Finn to Jamaica, but it’s the friendly island that is the real winner

December 2019

  • Once we’re over 30 we lose muscle mass every year – so exercise is more important than ever.

    Shortcuts
    Why do people think 41 is too old to exercise? It’s a perfect time to start

    The truth is that whatever your age, exercise can be beneficial - and just think about the post-workout high

November 2019

  • Competitors from Vegan Runners

    Vegan runners: can a plant-based diet provide what you need to compete – and win?

    Fiona Oakes was a lone crusader when she set up a running club for vegans 15 years ago. Now, she holds four world records

June 2019

  • Adharanand Finn running with a group of Kenyans

    Self and wellbeing
    How the sheer hell of ultrarunning led me to a strange peace

    He was often on the verge of giving up such gruelling challenges, but eventually Adharanand Finn found that ultrarunning led him to a meditative state

January 2019

  • Jasmin Paris on Shunner Fell, north Yorkshire, during the 2019 Montane Spine Race.

    Ultrarunner Jasmin Paris on her gruelling 83-hour win: ‘I just had one job to do'

    The winner of the gruelling Montane Spine Race on how hiking with her baby helped her to smash the men’s record – despite having to express milk along the way

September 2018

  • Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) wins the BMW Berlin Marathon 2018, Berlin, Germany - 16 Sep 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gora Andreas/action press/REX/Shutterstock (9884311f) Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) wins the BMW Berlin Marathon 2018, Berlin, Germany - 16 Sep 2018

    Shortcuts
    After Eliud Kipchoge’s world-record win, is the two-hour marathon in sight?

    A sub-two-hour time once seemed like a dream, but the Kenyan runner’s astonishing time at the Berlin race means it no longer feels far fetched

July 2018

  • Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, poses with nurses in uniforms to represent each decade of the NHS during a visit to Trafford hospital.

    NHS at 70
    NHS at 70: staff and patients pay tribute to 'best thing in the world' – as it happened

  • The North Face Lavaredo Ultra Trail

    The running blog
    Big is beautiful: the razzmatazz of the grand ultra

May 2018

  • Running the first of two final warm-up races – the 45-mile race along the Jurassic coast in Devon – before the UTMB

    The running blog
    Just a baby ultra? Qualifying for the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc

    The UTMB is a serious challenge – at 105 miles, with a route that ascends 34,000ft, and traverses three different countries. But just getting through the qualifying races is an epic feat in itself

April 2018

  • No end in sight ... competitors in the Ica desert on the first, 250km Marathon des Sables Peru last November.

    When 26.2 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon

    They are an almost-impossible test of the human body and spirit, yet the number of ultramarathons has increased 1,000% over the last decade. Adharanand Finn asks what’s behind this rapid increase – and whether racing 100 miles or more is actually good for you

February 2018

  • Francis and Risper training in Kenya

    The running blog
    Why don’t Kenyans run ultramarathons?

    East Africans dominate long-distance running up to 26.2 miles – but longer races are almost exclusively white affairs. As ever in top-level sport, money has a lot to answer for

November 2017

  • France 100 miler

    The running blog
    Five lessons from a year of ultrarunning

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    A little piste of Christmas in the Austrian Alps

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