What is your Why? For Siaji Otieno, it’s for his Mental Wellbeing
What is your Why? is a story series by Kenya’s active community of runners, cyclists, hikers, triathletes and gym-goers on why they do […]
Inside Kenya’s Growing Urban Fitness and Wellness Movement
It’s 7:00 A.M. on a Saturday morning in Nairobi, and Emily Chepkor, a lawyer turned runner and founder of We Run Nairobi, […]
What is your Why? For Charley Kamau Blackman, Running Makes Him Whole
What is your Why? is a story series by Kenya’s active community of runners, cyclists, hikers, triathletes and gym-goers on why they […]
What is your Why? For Njambi Gathecha, it’s to reclaim her mental and emotional well-being
What sets those of us who start our fitness as a New Year’s resolution and eventually turn it into a lifestyle, from […]
A Dusk to Dawn Fitness Challenge: How Nairobi is Redefining Night Running
Night running, a practice considered a part of Kenyan folklore, is a cultural phenomenon common across various regions of the country, particularly […]
Of Fears, Frogs and Learning to Cycle at Forty
As a child, I never learned how to ride a bike. I grew up when bicycles were still largely just a means […]
Explore Kenya’s Top Running Clubs: A Thriving Culture of Fitness, Community and Adventure.
The year was 2018 and I was plateauing. It had been a year since I began running and I was slowly grinding […]
Kenyans are now thriving in ultra-running
For over 50 years, Kenyan athletes have dominated global long-distance running. But while the world’s fascination has remained glued to the elite […]
Kilimanjaro Marathon: Why Kenyans are calling on the race organisers to do better
In May this year, Kenya’s recreational running community gathered at the KEFRI centre Muguga on the outskirts of Nairobi for a ‘healing […]
How did South Africa become Africa’s recreational running Powerhouse?
In August 2021, The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon was officially confirmed as a potential candidate for the Abbott World Marathon Majors (AbbottWMM) […]
Why do we run, the motivations of Kenyan Recreational Runners
Facebook Linkedin Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp When Sega Kendrick, a Nigerian Medical student and recreational runner posted this tweet, it struck a chord […]