Next month, focus will shift to Iten, the high altitude training base that has produced a huge number of world beaters. This time though it won't be the athletes lining up in the wee hours as they ...

Nestled six hours northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, sits the small town of Iten. At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya’s iconic red clay roads. Running ...

When German long-distance runner Sebastian Uridat first visited Kenya in 2012, it was to train in the high-altitude region of Longonot. Although he did not exactly plan on returning, he has found ...