Camp Recap – Shrewsbury School
Camp Info Camp Type: Private Camp - Shrewsbury SchoolDates: December 13th - 17th 2019KE Staff: Willy Songok (Head of Guest Relations), Collins Kibet (Coach), Enock Kirop (Guest Relations & Photographer) + Run GuidesLocation: Iten, KenyaAccommodation: High Altitude...
Hill Training For Distance Runners
This blog discusses hill workouts for distance runners and how to incorporate them into your training. The author is The Kenya Experience Head Coach Hugo van den Broek. Hugo is a long time resident of Iten Kenya where he was previously a professional marathon runner...
Can we push ourselves to the limit?
Coach Hugo’s Blog: Can we push ourselves to the limit? This blog explores the ideas of the Central Governor Theory & the impact of the mind more generally in endurance performance in runners As a coach I often say something like: “run with 80% effort”. Lately I...
Junk Mileage and Junk Quality
In his latest coaching blog, Kenya Experience Head Coach Hugo van den Broek discusses the age old adage of quality versus quantity. Is one better than the other and how do you determine this? He goes on to ask if there such a thing as ‘Junk Mileage’ and introduces the...
A Guide to Post-Race Nutrition
This is the third part of a three part series on race day nutrition. Parts one and two looked at pre-race and mid-race nutrition respectively. In this blog I will discuss nutrition strategies for optimal recovery after your race. Race day is a big day for us runners,...
Camp Recap – Riversdale Athletics Club Young Athletes
"Amazing, once in a lifetime experience" Camp Info Camp Type: Private Camp - Riversdale Athletics ClubDates: April 13th - 27thKE Staff: Willy Songok (Head of Guest Relations), Hugo van den Broek (Head Coach), Collins Kibet (Coach), Enock Kirop (Guest Relations...
Coach Blog: Part 2 Polarised Training (The 80/20 Method)
This blog discusses the use of ‘Polarised Training’ in distance running training and is part 2 of a 2 part series. In my previous blog, I wrote about polarised training, or the so called “80-20 method”. If you need a reminder of what polarised training refers to,...
My Kenya Experience – By KE Guest Susan Loken
In February 2019 15 guests from across the world joined The Kenya Experience team in Iten Kenya for the running camp of a lifetime. One of those guests was Susan Loken, a coach and runner from Phoenix, Arizona. On her return home Susan wrote a fantastic blog post...
Coach Blog: Polarised Training (The 80/20 Method)
This blog discusses the use of ‘Polarised Training’ in distance running training. Many of you have probably heard of polarised training. Or the 80/20 method. This idea was popularised among runners by Matt Fitzgerald in 2014 in a book titled “80/20 running”. For those...
The Kenya Experience December 2018 Write Up
The Kenya Experience: December 2018 Camp Summary The Kenya Experience Running Camp December 2018 saw 22 guests from all over the world descend on the small rural village of Iten Kenya for two weeks of fun and hard training. With runners from as far afield as Canada,...