Run Wild

'Chumbawamba founder member clearly thinks on his feet if his latest book Run Wild is anything to go by... Forming the band in 1981, he also ran his first marathon that same year. No wonder he was breathless. During the next 5 years Chumbawamba recorded various albums and toured the world and it took him as long to discover hill running. Enter his first race, he was immediately hooked. Run Wild captures the joys of discovery this new lifestyle brings...' --Radio 2 Magazine

'This is not a how-to guide, but a call to legs: anyone can, and should, escape urban life and run, he writes. And it should be fun. This energising read with spark a desire to head for the hills' --The Economist

Boff Whalley just likes running - the places it takes him, the moments of exhilaration and snapshots of natural beauty that he adds to his mental album. This is not a man who signs up to big city marathons and pounds the pavements. With his down to earth voice and a great sense of humour, Boff writes about how running brings a real world of discovery and adventure, from reaching the top of a mountain with the sun at your back and moon in front creating two shadows to running up Mt Fuji on a break from work. For Boff, running is about freedom, experiencing of the world, your place in it and generally just enjoying yourself. Running is a way to get back to that simplest of relationships - the one between our feet and the earth.