Linus Gitahi: Biggest Booster for Kenyan Runners

There is no doubt that Linus Gitahi is the biggest admirer and booster of Kenyan runners.  He writes a blog to inform track and field fans and fans of Kenyan runners about these athletes. That is, when he is not busy with his duties as CEO of Nation Media Group, the largest media firm in Central and Eastern Africa. Now, about Kenyan runners.

Kenyan runners burst into the track and field world by winning Olympic medals in 1964 and they have led the pack since.  Some say it is the Kenyan diet, or maybe it is living in high altitude, or that given the distance between villages and lack of motorized transportation, Kenyans are naturally trained to be runners.  But many observers of Kenyan distance runners, Linus Gitahi included, opine that running is in the Kenyan's nature.  Kenyan journalist John H. Manner writes that Kenyans are born to run, having evolved in a Darwinian way to be the world's greatest runners. Linus Gitahi also writes about the Kalenjin runners.  The best Kenyan running athletes seem to come from one tribe, the Kalenjin tribe.  Berkley anthropologist Vincent Sarich writes that Kalenjin runners can outrun 90 percent of the human race and that the average Kalenjin woman, given similar training can outrun the world's average man any day.

Amazing, isn't it?