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 ...

It's no secret that Kenyan runners are some of the fastest and most awarded in the world. Names like Eliud Kipchoge and David Rudisha have graced the Olympic stage for years, and for good reason. But ...

RIGA (01-Oct) -- With a dozen total medals (five gold) Kenya topped the medal table at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships here this afternoon. In cool, sunny and breezy ...

Just before sunset, Umra Omar boards a speedboat that will take her around the historic Lamu channel for meetings with voters. As her boat zooms past idyllic islands and arrives at shore 30 minutes ...

In the darkest moments of her toughest training sessions, professional marathon runner Mary Ngugi likes to lean on her trackside audience for motivation. That’s not necessarily her coach – nor her ...

The big spring marathons are just ahead - Rome (March 23), Paris (April 6), London (April 13) and Boston (April 21). One absolutely safe prediction is that almost all the top places will go to ...

In this Jan. 30, 2016, photo photographs of past champions hang on the wall above a small television set, a rare concession to modernity, at the Global Sports camp near the village of Kaptagat in ...