Ethiopia is doing good in marathons but not to the Kenyan standard. If you look at the world championship in Berlin in 2010 Kenya team B squad destroyed Ethiopia's team A squad. Kenya liberalize their athletics years ago and let the runners compete wherever they want and how they want, Ethiopia sanction their runners by picking runners for them and restricting their races. Sanctions undermines talent and discourages runners from gaining experience. Money is another factor. Kenyans take athletics as a business and they take it seriously. This has help generate interest within the youth to take up the sport in huge numbers. Kenyans athletics schedule from primary school, secondary to private and organizational structure helps in generating high quality runners who are ready to take on big runners and win. Kenyans secret is that there is no secret. People keep looking and searching for a secret which does not exist. Train hard, punish yourself, endure the pain a little harder and they will win.