Category: Sports
The alarming doping situation in Kenya
How bad is the doping Situation in Kenya? Is it exactly how it appears to be? Are there any double standards applied in the fight against doping in Kenya? What motivates Kenyan athletes to dope? This past weekend, the Anti-Doping Workshop for Kenyan Sports Journalists, which took place from July 5th to July 6th, 2024,…
Budapest World Athletics Championships; my amazing personal experiences
The 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships could have been the best-ever edition of the championships in history, so far. I was lucky to have been there in person, and it is taking almost a month for me to digest everything that I saw and experienced there. It was simply amazing; an out-of-this-world experience.
A training partner is so much more valuable as a spouse
There are many couples who have met and got to know each other through running and are now training partners. They have had their support for each other, resulting in perhaps more achievements than any one of them would have achieved individually. The benefits of having a good training group have never been disputed, but…
Saved by running, Nolene Conrad has now made running her career
It is easy to spot a runner who is focused on their running and are determined to achieve the best in their careers. Nolene Conrad, with her enthusiasm about running marathons will be one of the athletes to watch out for during the 2019 IAAF world championships in Doha, at the Tokyo Olympic Games in…
Kenyan companies sponsoring Kenyan runners; the big irony
Vivian Cheruiyot leading the women’s 10,000m race at the Olympic trials in Kipchoge Stadium, Eldoret We have Kenyan runners dominating the world of running, but do we have Kenyan companies sponsoring them? Many local companies in Kenya usually come in to sponsor the highly increasing number of road races around, and, as Kenyan…
Should top elite athletes from Kenya run in the local Kenyan races?
Peres Jepchirchir and Gladys Cherono. Photo from the Ottawa Race Weekend At the 2018 Family Bank Half Marathon in Eldoret, one of the local Kenyan races, Joyciline Jepkosgei, the world record holder of the women’s half marathon, just won the local half marathon race here. She was followed by the 2014 Commonwealth Games’ marathon champion,…