Japhet Koech's Edinburgh adventure: the next chapter

Kenyan athlete Japhet Koech will be back in Edinburgh to run the 2014 marathon – if his Crowdfunder project is another success

When I first met Japhet Koech, grinning outside a tiny wooden kiosk in a backstreet in Iten, Kenya, I didn't realise quite how far we'd go together. After we trained for and ran the Lewa marathon in Kenya in 2011, I said goodbye and headed back to London. Our adventure was over, I thought. In fact, it was just beginning.

After I wrote the book Running with the Kenyans,...