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…
There are many great stories that come out of running and training in Kenya. Be it getting lost in the forest, being taken on a longer route than you had planned and ending up stopping and asking for help, starting out on a very tough workout with a group, then looking at each other understandingly…
