Dozens of runners donned snow goggles and braved icy temperatures to participate in the world’s highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest on Monday, five months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal. The annual…
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92-year-old sets record for oldest woman marathoner
A 92-year-old US grandmother has become the oldest woman to finish a marathon, when she crossed the finish line of a San Diego 26-miler on Sunday, race organizers said. A smiling Harriette Thompson, aged 92…
#RunningWithTheFirstLady for the Beyond Zero campaign
I am here to tell my version of the truth and nothing but that version. Pretty much. Here’s a moment by moment rundown of what went down on Thursday19th February, 2015, at State House, Nairobi,…
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich’s 3 tips to living an active lifestyle
To call Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich a “runner” is to oversimplify. Not because he isn’t – what could be more runner-like than a tall and lean Kenyan, after all? – but because it ignores the storied…