Short recoveries let you know that when you have difficulties in a race that if you rest with a slower kilometer you can recover. We run this on a course in the forest with a 2K hill at the end. We push the hill every lap and work to improve time in total and on the hill. I don t want to say too much. The Kenyan runners are naturally self-motivated because being a successful athlete and coming out means to change lifestyle, to help family, to build a future.
Many famous athletes are examples to the young generations.
The Kenyan runners are strongly self-motivated and for that reason they are used to sacrificing themselves to improve and achieve good performances. It has to do with living circumstances. The Africans are motivated, coming from poor areas. I don t see a lot of millionaire marathoners. Besides economics, the Africans live at altitude, and their societies have developed as runners over thousands of years.