183 To Jog

Who are the best marathon runners in the world and why? As an economist and New York Times best-selling author, Dambisa Moyo, might not be the kind of person you’d expect to be able to competitively run marathons. However, in this episode, she shares her story with ShaoLan of how she got into the sport and how she’s managed to maintain the motivation to keep training and controlling her diet, in order to maintain the kind of fitness required for marathon running. She also explains one of the factors influencing Ethiopian, Kenyan and Ugandan dominance in the long distance running sports! Finally, what has a horse pulling a pine tree got to do with running a marathon? ShaoLan explains all!

The word ‘to jog’ in Chinese is 慢跑. 慢 means “slow” and 跑 means “to run” so 慢跑 “to run slowly” is “to jog.”