The Greek island is fantastic for running, offering decent roads, winding paths and plenty of opportunities for hill reps In Natural Born Heroes, Chris McDougall’s follow-up to his bestselling Born to Run, he tells the story of Churchill’s “dirty tricksters”. This makeshift squad – comprising such unlikely heroes as English archaeologists, artists and poets alongside local resistance fighters – helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete by kidnapping a German general and bustling him on foot across the tiny, uneven tracks that network the island. Modern trail runners can retrace these historic steps – there is even an ultra race that traces all 156.2km of it. Continue reading...
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