I don’t hear people saying that they compete in a marathon. It’s usually that they participate in one. Fair enough, given that it’s so damn hard to finish one. For a normal person, just getting to the end of the 42.195 km run is a great achievement by itself, hence the more usual participate term.
However, this is good enough if you’re not from Kenya. If this is the case, everything changes. You have to win, or if you don’t, you have to finish in under 2:30h. And win the next one.
13,718 people finished the 31st Stockholm marathon this Saturday, out of which 13,717 came after a Kenyan.
As a nerd that I am, I turned to Google for an answer to the question “why do the Kenyans run so fast?” and Google showed me this article, which I think summarizes the answer in an articulate way:
“…the answer is really kind of simple. Just live with them for awhile. You’ll quickly understand.“
Please follow this link for more photos I took during the race.
