I arrived in Nairobi by plane on Wednesday and travelled to a hotel in n'gong by car with nick Kenyan guy Joseph and Kenyan guy Stan and Matt Pierson, me and nick struggled to sleep at night because of the heat and the midges, I also struggled to sleep because of Nick talking about how much he would like to pour some concrete. We woke up at 6.00am the next morning for a 60min run with Matt nick and Joseph, we started off easy around 10min for the 1st mile and finishing it with a 5.30mile, me and nick found the hill quite tough because of the altitude but because where both proper tough we didn't complain, after the run we travelled up to kericho with Joseph. It took 4 hours to get there and along the way we stopped off and looked along the great rift valley which was proper viewalicious, we also seen quite a few zebras. We arrived in Kericho to our luxury hotel and met all of the Kenyan people in the camp and went for a run around 4.30pm with aly dixon and Mr Kenyan guy. After the run we went to john mutai's house ( winner of the great north run 1999) and ate some pasta ugali and drank some milk. On Friday we went for a run a 6.00am which is the normal time for running out here, I ended up doing the 5mile route with aly dixon as I want to ease into my training until I get used to the altitude but nick decided to go for a so called easy run with the kenyan's (80mins) and when he arrived back at our pad he looked a broken man, but Nick likes pain so he enjoyed it. This brings me to talk about bread, when Nick got back he needed the toilet but because we had no toilet roll I told Nick to use some bread, Nick thought it was a canny idea so he decided to do it, when I walked past the toilet Nick was laughing because the bread wouldn't flush so he told me that I should poo on top of it to flush it, me being stupid I decided to do it and i also used the bread, I had to flush the toilet 5 times to flush it and I must say bread is a good substitute for toilet roll. We then headed into kericho town in a taxi which is pretty mad because they cram as many people into the taxi as they can, we bought some water and some toilet roll and Head back to our hotel for a power nap. After our nap we went for a 5mile easy run on the same route and with it being 4.30pm all the kids had finished school, so as you can imagine a white person in a small town like kericho is very rare so when they see us they start running alongside us shouting mazungo which means white person, most of the must of been 5-8 years old but they kept up with us for quite a while. Im enjoying life out here so far and will keep you all posted on the well good stuff I do.
x
Josh Tighe
