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Kenya's Safaricom Marathon: Pleasure and pain on the African plains |
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Written by Charles Starmer Smith - Telegraph.co.uk
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Article Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Charles Starmer-Smith joins wildlife and world champions for the gruelling Safaricom Marathon charity race in Kenya.
"Go and stand next to him while I take a photo," urges one of the British squaddies, nodding towards the impossibly long sugar cane frame of one of the Kenyans standing at the start of the Safaricom marathon. I reluctantly oblige, if only to take my mind off what lies ahead: more than 13 miles through the parched rolling hills of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in temperatures of 95F (35C) – all at a lung-bursting altitude of 5,500ft. The Kenyan smiles wearily as the elastic of his shorts finishes somewhere near my chest.
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