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Kenyan Long-distance Running Coaches’ Simple but lethal marathon training Programs
Duration and distances are the two main ways often used by Kenyan long-distance running coaches to issue weekly or monthly running training programs to their runners. It could be a one-hour or a 12km easy run; a 40-minute or a 7km jog; a two-hour or a 25km run; a 3hr or a 30 km long…
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2022 BAA Boston Half Marathon promises to excite
The 2022 BAA Boston half marathon race promises to be exciting. The weather looks good with 40-53 degrees Fahrenheit expected on a partly sunny Sunday Morning, on the streets of Boston. With a late withdrawal by Kenya’s Vicoty Chepngeno, 20-year-old Bosena Mulatie of Ethiopia leads the women’s start list with a personal best time of 1:05:46.…
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Borchert miraculously completes the 2022 Lewa half marathon a month after contracting COVID-19
In a show of great determination and his undying love for running, Johannes Borchert finished the Lewa half marathon this weekend in Meru, at a wildlife conservancy slightly over 200km to the north of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi -by road. This was such an inspiring achievement given that he had contracted Covid-19 last month (May…
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Yavi produces jaw-dropping world-leading performance at the 2022 Paris Diamond League meeting
Perhaps, due to the Kenyan national trials happening on Friday and Saturday, Kenyan runners – except for Virginia Nyambura who was pacing the women’s 3000m steeplechase, and Rosefline Chepngetich who was competing – did not feature much at the Paris Diamond League meeting tonight. Yavi’s amazing race Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi was clearly in her own…
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Why run with Amos?
Who is Amos? Amos Kimutai is not your average Kenyan runner. He is a tour guide by profession. His love and passion for athletics cannot be described by pen and paper; you have to run with Amos to experience it! Anyone should plan to run with me; not because I’m a top athlete, but because…