Kenya’s dream factory: a success story destined to run and run
15.01.2010 World
Six o’clock in the morning, on the corner where the road meets the red dirt track on the edge of a Kenyan village called Iten, is where you find one of the most extraordinarily concentrated hotbeds of athletic talent known to man.
Every morning, they run for an hour around the roads and dirt tracks of the village. A small Lycra army, hundreds of them. Now we are into January, it may be up to thousands. Thousands of long-distance runners. Six in the morning, then four in the afternoon, and often another session in between.
Iten is as inconsequential, everyday, luxury-free a village as you will find, but if you are Kenyan, have strong legs and big dreams, then you will make your way here to sign up to the 6am army.
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