A Thousand Words
I’ve talked before about how surreal running around ILRI during my lunch break is. Two or three days a week we go jogging around the countryside surrounding the ILRI campus. Rain or shine, we strap up and run through the little towns of Uthiru and Ndambuini, on through the quiet village of Soweto (no, not [...]
Marathon Pictures
“Pictures or it didn’t happen!” Well it happened: I ran 10 km in the 2009 Nairobi Marathon, and here are the pictures to prove it! There were almost sixty of us from ILRI, and we all finished without the aid of an ambulance. Finishing 10 km was a bit anti climatic because we didn’t finish [...]
10 km Hakuna Shida
I ran 10 km in the Nairobi Marathon, hakuna shida (no problem). It’s not far but I’m really tired! As I was waiting for the 10 km group to start I saw the wheelchair group fly by, and then the full marathon group. The 42 km guys are serious runners, holy shit. And the wheelchair [...]
Two Years in Kenya
It will be two years ago tomorrow that I moved to Kenya with Sara. After a few months living in Tala we were evacuated due to the post-election violence after Kenya’s 2007 Presidential election, but I came back soon after. In that period I’ve taught computer classes as a VSO volunteer, traveled all over East [...]
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.