Wow, what a weekend of road racing. With major races in Milan, Rotterdam, Rome, Prague, Berlin, Istanbul and Paris as well as in Asia and the United States there was seemingly fast running everywhere you looked this weekend. Although road races take place around the...
Kenyan Training Observation & Discussion: Is it better to run a workout at your own pace ensuring you complete the full session or to run at your desired pace and simply hold on for as long as you can, even if that means you do not complete the workout? When we...
London Marathon 2017 Elite Women’s Race Preview Yesterday we described the Men’s race for the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon with almost a tinge of disappointment at who was missing. We pointed out that this is the first in a number of years where the ‘greatest...
London Marathon Preview: Men’s elite race It’s that time of year again when the running world turns it’s attentions to London for the greatest marathon on Earth (sorry New York, but we still think that’s true). At least it is true in the highlands of Kenya...
(Title Photo c/o IAAF Website) On Saturday 1st April 2017 reports emerged from Prague that a relatively unknown Kenyan runner had just become the first women to run a half marathon in under 65minutes. Not only that, but she had also broken the 10k, 15k and 20km...
We recently recommended the film Gun Runners by Anjali Nayar which is currently available on Netflix. Aside from being a great watch in itself, the film also raised a number of issues and interesting discussion points on Kenyan running, some of which have come up in...
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