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Wilson Kipsang/Photo by Victah Sailer After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to breaking the Marathon world record, Kenya's Wilson Kipsang made it his own property when he clocked 2.03.23 at the BMW Berlin Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday.* Kipsang, 31, took 15 seconds off his compatriot Patrick Makau’s mark of 2.03.38, set in the same race two years ago. Berlin’s cachet of possessing the fastest Marathon course in the world has again emphasised. This is the eighth world record on the course in 15 years. Barely a month after Makau’s set Berlin’s seventh World record, Kipsang won the 2011 Frankfurt Marathon in 2.03.42. He went on to win the London Marathon 2012, but finished third at the London 2012 Olympic Games three months later. In only his second Marathon, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the 2003 World 5000m champion, finished second in 2.04.05, improving his best by more than a minute; and another Kenyan, Geo

Eliud Kipchoge Just over ten years ago, the teenage Eliud Kipchoge sprang into the public consciousness by holding off the celebrated Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele to win the World 5000 metres title in one of the most exciting finishes in the history of track distance running. Despite a decade of superlative performances since then, including Olympic silver and bronze medals, Kipchoge has not quite managed to reach the heights of that performance in Paris. Pursuing, as he admits an ‘old school’ idea of turning to marathons at the end of his career, the 29 year old Kipchoge made a winning debut, 2.05.30 in Hamburg six months ago. It was a tough race, but if Hamburg was the frying pan, Berlin, where he runs on Sunday, will be the fire. The course may be clement – ‘flat and forgiving,’ as Desiree Davila characterised yesterday - but the opposition is torrid. It would have been more so, had not current world record holder, Patrick Makau had to pull o

A Sexagenarian ( Santunini Hhayuma ) walked with us the whole way; in fact he was playing a fatherly part during the walk. Sometimes we would argue but he would settle our differences and we kept on moving.

Safari Across Tanzania was hard but very interesting, I learned to give back to the community what the community gave me when I was a little kid. I found out that Tanzanians are all the same despite living in different geographical areas and speaking different tribal languages. So I guess my expedition was also about 'Cultural Tourism' . 

Safari Across Tanzania was hard but very interesting, I learned to give back to the community what the community gave me when I was a little kid. I found out that Tanzanians are all the same despite living in different geographical areas and speaking different tribal languages. So I guess my expedition was also about 'Cultural Tourism' . 

  Tanzania is a peaceful country; I mean from east to west of the country the police and civilians appreciated our mission. In fact they even sheltered and fed us along the way from the coast of Indian Ocean to the shores of Lake Tanganyika . Thanks to Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere for setting up this strong foundation.

Tanzania is a peaceful country; I mean from east to west of the country the police and civilians appreciated our mission. In fact they even sheltered and fed us along the way from the coast of Indian Ocean to the shores of Lake Tanganyika . Thanks to Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere for setting up this strong foundation.