At a conference on athletics in Addis Ababa, the focus is on what Ethiopia can learn from the west. But should we be looking to them for the secrets of success?
The runners begin to arrive at Jan Meda racecourse in Addis Ababa at around 5am, an hour before the sun rises and the Ethiopian day starts. By 7am, some people have been training for two hours. The impression is not one of careful organisation. People train alone, in twos or in groups. They run clockwise, anticlockwise, or just zig-zag all over the place. The youngest is about nine years old, the oldest must be more than 60.
The pace, too, is unpredictable, something I realise as I attempt to run with other people. In the phalanxes of four or five runners that form, the strongest runner at the front dictates the pace and the direction, while others slow to a jog when the pace gets too hot, rejoining when they have recovered.
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