5 LESSONS From Running With KENYANS (Kenya Experience DAY 5) 

That's a true souvenir right there! Some Iten dust in your Alphaflys is a nice reminder of the experience 🙌

I hope the sheep gets her invitation to be the first guest on the podcast

Happy to see you enjoy your stay in our Country... Learn some swahili while at it... 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

That lamb really taking the piss here 😂 Great vid Ben, absolutely loving the series! Those fartleks look like no joke 😓

Not a “BAHHHD” video, Ben! Great once in a lifetime experience.

Absolutely loving this series Ben 💚 Glad you are having an amazing time and everyone seems so friendly 😄 The Kenyan athletes are out of this world 🙌 Thank you for taking us along on your journey and experience 🙏

Wow, another Kenya experience here! Appreciate it Ben!😍

Loving this series Ben. Keep up the great content

Interesting insights on the fartleks which really emphasize hard days being hard. 95% effort is tremendously hard. Definitely recovery is important after that many rounds especially on hilly terrain.

Day 1: food is bland here Day 5: soaking it in syrup 🤣

Loving this series 👍

loving you kenya series and experience, man! amazing!

Thank you for all your daily inspiration! Enjoying it immensely! 🙏

Utterly fascinating series you’re putting together Ben! Keep up the good work!

Awesome video, great to have some tips from the pros!

All sounds like how club running was in the 70's 80's. Fartlek 9/10 miles in groups of 10-15 of similar abilities on Tuesday & Thursday. Enormous multi level group on Sunday of 12 to 20miles run in the woods or across fields with as much off road as possible - last 5miles were every man for himself as fast as you could manage. Loads of hills in those. All year round.

Great series Ben, I'm learning along with you,keep it coming, thank you.

Thanks for sharing your trip experience!

Really interesting!

Brill Ben, what a experience mate 🙌🙌

Looks great out there!

Awesome content 🎉

Brilliant series - really enjoying it

Well done on what seems to have been a hard but great session!

Great insights, session looked brutal Well done 👏

All I can say is THANKS and CONGRATULATIONS Ben!

I have been watching your channel for awhile now and this Kenya trip is the best I have seen. Great content keep it up Would be great to see you up in Suffolk

Really liking this series so far!

Great insights Ben. Really enjoying what you're capturing out in Kenya. I'm a big fan of fartlek, really like it as a more playful form of speedwork.

the sheep😁👍 enjoy your time, Ben!

Very cool experience. Thanks for the breakdown and insights. The Kenyan approach is so interesting compared to the typical solo training that most of us casual runners undertake. Gonna look for groups to train with.

That’s a really interesting variable, your second to last point. And something any of us can try down at our clubs for a few weeks.

Thank you for sharing this amazing experience. I am the base building phase for 2023 and I like that 3 week rotation of fartleks. Will incorporate starting next week as this is a down week. The train in Kenya experience is officially on my list and would be amazing trip as a first on the continent.

Yes the Power of the group seems key.

Good man 😎👍🤞

Amazing series so far! What types of shoes are the locals wearing during these training sessions?

Ben, seen a few of your vids and am enjoying the journey! Your running form is beautiful. Did you do anything in particular to get it there or has it always come naturally?

Hey Ben, enjoying the content! Btw you should get some glasses retainers for your glasses, save you pushing them up your head every 10 seconds 😆They don't look cool but my god makes running with glasses so much better.

Interesting about how they build, and blow up in workouts as they try to keep up with the main group. I think that is applicable for younger runners too HS, etc.

Another great video Ben, looking a bit sunburnt this time?

Love watching , i was there last year and come back this summer. Fartlek is realy tough. You r sure it was a sheep?

so great to follow along here; props for sticking with the fartlek 11x ... channeling Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York ("The blood stays on the blade"): The dust stays on the shoes

Hi @Ben Is Running, great series, and thanks for sharing the lessons. You mentioned that many athletes would push to stay with the front group until they couldn't. I'm curious what happens when they snap? Say an athlete goes to the well to stay with a group and is hitting maximum exertion on the 8th or 9th pick-up of 13. On the next pick-up they simply cannot physically stay with the group. Is their session over? Are they slowing drastically? What is their response? In my own training, I also push hard to stay with the front group, but I find that I sometimes fade quickly in the later stages of a workout or even end the workout early as a result. Would be great to hear your thoughts on this!

I wish I knew you were coming to Nakuru. I usually do my 1k reps on the last stretch to the National park. Anyway Thank you for visiting

The red Kenyan dirt should be part of the Alphafly's design.

Is this really a fartlek though? Isn't it interval instead? Either way, can't wait to see how this Kenya experience improves your speed overall.

Those Alphafly’s are quite the souvenir now. I don’t think I would clean them either.

The Alphafly look 100x better after

I’m interested in Kenya how hard is the minute off in the Fartlek? Is it a fast float, jog or walk?

That would be a sick colorway for the Alphaflys

What the experience level or diversity of paces of the participants? Asking for a 3:06 marathoner friend. 😉

Frame those Alpha's in a glass box for display and never wear them again!! 😅🤣 Great series, probably my favourite episode so far, their Fartlek seems very tough!!

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How come you’re training already if you said that it takes 1 week to get your body used to altitude?

Ben those sunnies did not like they were staying on haha

Hills are your friend!? ⛰️

Some straps to your glasses would help some during that fartlek. Way to go Ben

Sorry about the 🐑 😂😂😂 love this series

Is this like a group tour your attending where you just meet up and run? Exhausting with such a big group imo

Iten is probably the only place in the world where most of the tourists are more interested in pain than pleasure 😄

Looks like you may have needed your contacts on your run. I totally get slipping glasses!

Was it a sheep or more probably a goat 🐐. Good content as usual.

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Them Kenyans have the right idea, there isnt a alphafly, whoop strap, backward cap or set of triathlon glasses amongst them

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The true star of this episode being the sheep😂

Needs to be explicit in the video that this trip was sponsored or it's a paid promotion. Love the vlogs so far

A “Fartlek” is an unstructured “speed play”. The intervals are of random lengths and paces. This is simply an interval session. The only thing Kenyan about it is that it was run in Kenya. Still, kudos for hitting a decent pace although not yet acclimatised properly. This would be easy for you back in the UK.

The main lesson I took from that was BAHHHHHHHHHH

Ben mate, what is their relationship with European runners, are they underlooking us and are they being overly confident about themselves? I sometimes get the feeling that it is Kenyan's and everybody else in their attitude

You r a talanted runner ben no doat about that first stop using that camera like girl to make some progress and get a laser treatment to throw away does glasses as they r taking away from your time of running adjusting them constatly in your game every second matters