You will immediately notice that Kenya’s top runners are not evenly spread across the nation but are highly concentrated on one tiny area in the Rift Valley, in and around Eldoret. As Fred Hardy, a retired American college track coach, put it: “If one were to circumscribe a radius of sixty miles around the town of Eldoret, you would get about 90 percent of the top Kenyan athletes. Something special has happened here in the Nandi Hills.”
