If there are lions and leopards in Kenya, why don't athletes ever get eaten on their runs?

Every morning in Africa, a runner wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest runner, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a runner-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

They can run up to 30 mph, and kill more people in Africa than any other animal.

The highland areas of SW Kenya, SE Uganda, and Ethiopia - where most of the famous distance runners come from - are very densely populated. They also have fairly cool climates. Summer temperatures in Eldoret, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia are lower than in most of the high-altitude cities in the US.

I lived in a similar area in rural Tanzania and didn't see a big cat, or any other large, wild mammal in a year of living there, except when I went to game parks, etc. The largest animals I saw were medium-sized monkeys, and I saw those infrequently. There are huge areas of dry, scrubby plains in East Africa with a lot more animals and a lot fewer people, but that's not where the famous runners are from.

Usain Bolt can run 30mph, and could kill probably even more people in Africa

Hippos can run speeds up to 45 km/hr(28 miles per hour)

Faster than a normal human being can sprint

They may be fat but doesn't mean they are slow

Like elephants,rhinos, buffaloes and most other large animals hippos are much faster than they seem to look. Don't let there looks fool you

Come on now. Lions kill and eat people on a semi-regular basis. I would bet that there is not a lot of distance running going on where there is lion habitat, with the exception perhaps of Tim's former crew.

Y'all are forgetting that there are more guns than people in Kenya. Most athletes train with AR15s

There are grizzlies in Yellowstone. Why don't you get eaten on your runs?

do you still think East African all live in huts and do runs across the savannah?

They're training on dirt roads frequented by mopeds and cars + they're normally in large packs, not exactly prime environment for a lion who would have to go near roads, not be deterred by the noise nor being vastly outnumbered by much taller beings.

Even more rural running routes in Kenya will be farmland which is enclosed areas with roads between them and then in Ethiopia (I've not been but my understanding is) its very similar + running in wooded areas

And a foreign student said to me
Was it really true
There are elephants, lions too
In Piccadilly Circus?

I wish Elmo Slanders would go train in the African wilderness for a while.

Same reason why Australian runners don’t get bitten by snakes, or Australian runners don’t get eaten by crocodiles, or Australian runners don’t get kicked by kangaroos. Dumb luck

The reason is they are used to running away from drug testers, so no animal stands a chance of catching them.

Over the last 30,000 years, our ancestors systematically killed off most of the species that couldn’t figure out not to have humans on the menu.