Duncan Nyasinga running at the 2019 NYC marathon I have never raced at the New York City marathon before, but I was the closest ever to the experience of running it this year as I tracked one of the runners I coach online who was running it. Duncan Nyasinga approached me in late August this…
Brigid Kosgei just gave us another shock today (the 13th of October 2019) after running a new women’s world record of 2:14:04 at the Chicago Marathon to shatter a sixteen-year-old world record by over one minute and twenty seconds. This happened as we were just about to recover from the shock that struck us yesterday…
I am deeply indebted to Eliud Kipchoge’s coaches and training group for allowing me to join them in most of their training runs, especially the track intervals. Despite it being such a rare chance, a spectacular experience, and a great learning opportunity, it is obviously not an easy task trying to keep up with this…
With four days to go before the Berlin Marathon in 2014, I caught up with Dennis Kimetto in Kapng’etuny, Kenya, as he finalized his training before heading out to Berlin. He is a man of few words, but the few words he told me, supported by hard facts, made me wonder whether the world marathon…
After a runner completes a gruelling marathon, there are energy gels, sports drinks, protein shakes, racing shoes, pacemakers, sunglasses, GPS sport watches, and performance socks, among companies waiting to claim credit for any good performance. What percentage of the credit goes to a good running coach and the runner? If it was true that every…
The 2019 IAAF Aarhus World Cross Country Championships that happened in Denmark are over, but there are moments that will remain in record books and in the minds of fans that watched it for a long time to come. Below are some of the memories to keep from the Aarhus World Cross Country Championships. 1….
Jacqueline Nyetipei helps a running drink water in a race For yet another time, a Kenyan runner, Simon Cheprot, has captured the hearts of many fans not because of their running, but due to their kind and humane acts during the race. This was in an almost similar incident to that of Jacqueline Nyatipei did…
On the 14th day of January 2013, work began on the site of the track that was being constructed by Lornah Kiplagat in Iten, Kenya. The field had to be cleared, and all the loose soil excavated and carried out of the site before being replaced by hard subsoil brought from nearby quarries and levelled….
This is my story on a visit to one of the most unique athletics training camps in Kenya sometime in 2017. In this warm, dusty and dry weather across most parts of Kenya, I could hardly believe the changes that I found by simply driving 26km out of Eldoret town this Wednesday (18th January 2017)…
Below are a number of the best running jokes that I was able to compile from different places on the internet: Running jokes The truth is you can always go faster, but sometimes the truth hurts. .************************* Two Hunters: Two hunters are walking through a forest looking for deer when all of a sudden, a…
At the finish line of the Dubai Marathon, I captured a few words of Ruth Chepngetich speaking in their local (Kalenjin) dialect with Emmanuel Saina on how the race had gone for her and a few challenges she had. She had then noticed Worknesh Dagefa coming to congratulate her and the press around them and…
A conversation I had with one athletics manager dealing with long and middle distance runners kept me thinking about the need for stakeholders in the sport of running to invest in different ways to attract more fans to the sport of running. What the future of running will need The future of running needs more…
