Shock Win for Kenya

The Athletic World Championship are already underway in Osaka. Japan is ahead of the rest of the world, that means by the time the action is ahead the rest of the world is asleep. Personally am gutted to have missed the 26 mile marathon that took place to day.
Am happy for my country man Luke Kibet [...]

No Pain No Gain

My frog jumping is leaving me in deep pain. My thighs are aching and any slight massage is painful. But I know if I want to develop endurance I have to keep punishing them.
 My goal was to do atleast five laps of frog jumps around a track field but I stopped after two laps. I [...]

Once beaten shopping twice shy

With the marathon less than 3 months away I decided to go early to shop for a new pair of shoes . I dont want to get caught in last minute shopping If you wait for the last minute you risk not getting the right shoe or no shoe at all.
Last year I went shopping late, actualy [...]

Power Training

In my first standard Chartered marathon the hardest part of the 26 miles was the last 6 miles. When I saw the 20 mile mark sign and checked my watch, quick mental calculation showed it had taken me 2 hours 15 minutes. I optimistically thought it would take me at most 40 minutes to get to [...]

COUNTDOWN TO BIG MARATHON

As I was having my dinner, my moment of feast was interupted by the a commercial I had not seen over an year. It was the sponsors of Nairobi Marathon, Standard Chartered Bank. Its now official the marathon is on October 28. I quickly checked the Calendar and I have less than 3 months to [...]

beating morning blues

Last evening I received a distressing phone call from one of my customer. The inpatient customer had placed an order and was, for no apparent good reason,  threatening to terminate the deal. I did my best to sweet talk him to be more patient and promised to see him fast thing in the morning to [...]

FREAK BED ACCIDENT

My funny moment today was an item I heard on BBC sports radio. I story that is my nomination for all time Bizarre sporting story. It was reported that Leroy Litta a professional footballer with Reading F.C., a top English premier league team, injured his leg muscle while stretching on bed after waking up in [...]