i wonder if how many people in Ethiopia and Kenya are training very hard to reach their potential, especially for the marathon distance.
Is long distance running more common in these 2 countries than in Asia and America?
i wonder if how many people in Ethiopia and Kenya are training very hard to reach their potential, especially for the marathon distance.
Is long distance running more common in these 2 countries than in Asia and America?
no most of them walk around and sit down
africangodrunner wrote:
i wonder if how many people in Ethiopia and Kenya are training very hard to reach their potential, especially for the marathon distance.
Is long distance running more common in these 2 countries than in Asia and America?
I obviously don't have a number for you; but having trained in Africa for 12 week stints for 3 years, I got to know the general "comings and goings." For rexample, there is a Thursday fartlek done every week in Iten. You will see everything from Olympic champions in unreleased prototype racers to farmers that are wearing hand me down trainers, 2 sizes too big. EVERYONE runs hard. There might be 150-200 men and women on any given week. It's pretty amazing to see.
3:57.xx wrote:
africangodrunner wrote:
i wonder if how many people in Ethiopia and Kenya are training very hard to reach their potential, especially for the marathon distance.
Is long distance running more common in these 2 countries than in Asia and America?
I obviously don't have a number for you; but having trained in Africa for 12 week stints for 3 years, I got to know the general "comings and goings." For rexample, there is a Thursday fartlek done every week in Iten. You will see everything from Olympic champions in unreleased prototype racers to farmers that are wearing hand me down trainers, 2 sizes too big. EVERYONE runs hard. There might be 150-200 men and women on any given week. It's pretty amazing to see.
This is an interesting question. I live in a city 10x bigger than Iten, one which has a fitness culture, and I doubt that their are 150-200 athletes training at a hard level like that, even including the colleges.