Diary: Running Through Kenya

This week former Running Times editor Scott Douglas is chronicling for Slate the time he is spending in Iten, Kenya, the farming town that is the center of the country's running culture.

"Westerners who immerse themselves in Iten's running culture don't learn new methods of physical preparation—every elite international runner pretty much knows how to train. What they do absorb is Kenyans' monomaniacal dedication."

Thanks to Anonymous Economist for the link.