Run the World by Becky Wade is available in paperback starting Tuesday. Heres an excerpt.Id been in Ethiopia only a week but had run enough (once or twice per day) to know what to expect. The captain of the day -- today, Derartu -- would take off into the forest like a mother duck with her chicks in a single-file line behind her, choosing any pace and any route, no matter how serpentine or perilous. It didnt help to ask for specifics in advance; rarely was the distance or speed predetermined -- as I learned on my very first day when the thirty-minute run Id requested lasted over an hour and no one but Dan and I seemed to notice. The girls were unable even to estimate their weekly volume. (Twenty miles? Banchi had responded when I asked her how many miles or kilometers she typically runs in one week. Sensing my shock, she said, Maybe one hundred?)Beyond dictating the logistics of the run, Derartus primary responsibilities as the line leader were first, to warm everyone up gently -- the pace after that was up to her discretion -- and second to set off the chain of snaps and finger points whenever an obstacle such as a root or a crack in the dirt arose: the warning system among Ethiopian runners. I assumed that the incessant snapping I heard ahead of me was for rhythm, like an oddly calibrated metronome, and my first couple of runs there, before Id caught on, were among the most challenging of my trip. Why on earth are we zigzagging through this uneven field of eucalyptus plants, circling the same tree over and over, when theres a perfectly good running path just a few meters away? Id wondered, feeling more and more flustered. 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