Lepopäivän viettoa - juoksija- ja muita kuuluisuuksia

HATCin kuntosalilta pois tullessa törmään ruotsalaiseen Toby Tanseriin, Kenian lasten ystävään.
Toby on Shoe4Africa -projektin perustaja (http://www.shoe4africa.org/) ja Eldoretin Lastensairaalan puuhamies - Lastensairaalan avajaisia vietettiin elokuussa 2015 Eldoretissä, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe4Africa_Childrens_Hospital.


Kuten eilen mainitsin lepopäivä tuli oikein otolliseen kohtaan. Leirin aloitus lukuisilla kilometreillä vei voimia treenaajalta korkeassa ilman alassa. Lepopäivän jälkeen jaksaa sitten askeltaa kovempia ja nopeampia kilometrejä – Michel on siitä pitänyt huolta tiukan ohjelman muodossa.

Nukuin todella pitkän yön, yhteensä 8 ½ tuntia (epätavallisen pitkän minulle). Aamusuihkun jälkeen pulahdin viileään uima-altaaseen. Taivas on kokonaan pilvessä ja tuulee, joten sadetta on tiedossa muutaman päivän kuluessa. Ilma tuntuu tutulta Suomen suvesta!

Nautin rauhassa aamupalasta. sitten uudelleen lepäämään. Aamupäivällä käyn salilla tekemässä tunnin treenin venyttelyineen. Paikat tuntuvat hiukan kireiltä – onneksi pääsen tänään klo 16:00 Juliuksen käsittelyyn uudelleen. Näin uskoisin olevani jälleen iskukykyisenä huomenna sunnuntaina juoksutreeneihin.

Likaista pykkiä on kertynyt sen verran, että kipasen ostamassa Itenin keskustasta pyykin pesuainetta. Saan pyykit kuivamaan nopeasti tuulisessa säässä.

Toby Tanser valitteli akilleksensa vaivaavan – annan hänelle ohjeita, miten sitä hoitaa sekä lopputuubin Voltaren geeliä. Totean, että hänen tulisi pitää omasta kropastaan yhtä hyvää huolta kuin kenialaisista lapsista urakoituaan Eldoretiin lastensairaalan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe4Africa_Childrens_Hospital.

Seuraavaksi on edessä lounas. Otan loppupäivän melko lunkisti löhöillen.

Kirjoittelen jo nyt blogiani ja yritän saada mukaan useamman kuvan, jotta pääsette paremmin mukaan leiritunnelmaan. Lisäksi kokoan muutamasta juoksijasta nettilinkit, joiden kautta pääsette tutustumaan heidän juoksusaavutuksiinsa.

Hyvää ja antoisaa lauantain viettoa siellä Suomessa teille kaikille.

Terveisin Harri

Kuvauksia leirin juoksijoista:

Lornah Kiplagat (vasemmalla) on HATC -leirikeskuksen perustaja ja Kenian parhaita naismaratoonareita vierellään serbialainen maratoonari Olivera Jevtic - ystävykset monien vuosien takaa.

1     Lornah Kiplagat, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lornah_Kiplagat

Lornah Kiplagat (born 1 May 1974) is a Dutch long-distance runner. She was born in Kabiemit, Rift Valley Province, Kenya and came to the Netherlands in 1999. She gained Dutch citizenship in 2003 and has competed for the Netherlands since. She runs not only road events but also in cross country and track and field.

She ran at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, was the 2007 gold medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and took three straight World Road Running Championship titles from 2006 to 2008. In the marathon, she holds a best time of 2:22:22 hours and has won major races in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Osaka. She currently holds the world road record over 5 kilometres and 10 miles. Her best times over 20 km and the half marathon distance were world records from 2007 to 2011 and remain the second fastest times ever.

Part of a highly successful family of runners, her relatives include Sylvia Kibet, Hilda Kibet and Susan Sirma.

Kiplagat was already running decent results when she still ran for Kenya. She was the first woman to win both the Falmouth Road Race and the Peachtree Road Race. As of 2006 she is still the only woman to achieve this, but she achieved it three times in a row (2000, 2001 and 2002) and a fourth time in 2005 as well. Among her other achievements are the Amsterdam Marathon, the Rotterdam Marathon, the Osaka Ladies Marathon and the Los Angeles Marathon.

In 1999 Kiplagat moved to the Netherlands; four years later she gained Dutch citizenship which allowed her to run for the Netherlands as of 2003. That same year she lowered the Dutch marathon record to 2:23.43 during the New York City Marathon. She also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she finished 5th in the 10,000m.

The year 2005 was a successful one for Kiplagat: she won a silver medal at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships then took the title at the 2005 European Cross Country Championships, feats which led to her begin selected as the Dutch athlete of the year. At the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she finished second in Japan, winning the silver medal. She also finished fifth in the 10,000m at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.

She won the 2007 World Cross Country Championships held in Mombasa, Kenya. Earlier, in February 2007, she competed at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships as an invited athlete and won the women's race, ahead of the elite among her former compatriots.In winning these championships, she beat off the entire Ethiopian challenge, of defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba, the previous short course champion Gelete Burka, and double bronze medalist from 2006, Meselech Melkamu. They finished: Dibaba, 2nd, Melkamu, 3rd, Burka, 4th.

Besides the Dutch record for the marathon, Kiplagat also owns four world records. In the 5 km road race she ran the distance in 14:47, while she lowered her own record in the 10 miles of 50.54 by two seconds to 50.50 during the 2006 Dam tot Damloop, which she also won in 2002. On 14 October 2007, Kiplagat set a new half marathon world record of 1:06:25 at the World Road Running Championships at Udine, Italy, while defending the title she first won in 2006. She also smashed her own 20 km world record en route, running 1:02:57. However, Paula Radcliffe has run a faster half-marathon on the slightly downhill Great North Run course in 2003.

Kiplagat was ruled out for the whole of 2009 and returned to competition with a win at the Runner's World Zandvoort Circuit Run in March 2010. In September, she ran at the Dam tot Damloop and was the runner-up behind her niece Hilda Kibet, finishing with a time of 52:03. She returned to the marathon event for the 2011 London Marathon and completed her first race over the distance in four years, coming 18th with a time of 2:27:57 hours. Although she was far from the podium and failed to gain the World Championship qualifying time, she considered the race a success following her previous injury-ridden seasons. She improved at the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon, crossing the line after 2:25:52 hours to claim third place, the Dutch national title, and the 2012 Summer Olympics qualifying time. Despite being almost four minutes slower than the winner (Tiki Gelana), she said: "I am the happiest woman in Amsterdam, and perhaps the whole world".

Lornah Kiplagat is the founder of African inspired Sports brand for active women called "Lornah "www.lornahsports.com. She is also the founder of the famous High Altitude Training Centre (HATC) in Iten Kenya, where athletes from all over the World go train (www.lornah.com).

                      Kuva Reidin omasta Kenian blogista (http://reidcoolsaet.com/)

      2. Reid Coolsaet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Coolsaet

      Katsokaa Reidin blogia Kenian matkoista. http://reidcoolsaet.com/

Reid Coolsaet Berlin-Marathon 2015 Runners 8.

Nationality          Canadian

Reid Coolsaet (born July 29, 1979) is a Canadian long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. He is a University of Guelph alumni, having competed as a Gryphon during his time there.

He made his first international appearances for Canada at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, running at the annual in 2002 and then 2004–2006. He won the 5000 meters at the NACAC U-25 Championships in 2002. On the track, he won the silver medal over 5000 meters at the 2005 Summer Universiade then represented his country at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He came thirteenth in the same event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He is also a four-time national champion in the 5000 meters (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).

Coolsaet moved up to the marathon distance for the first time in 2009 and came eighth in a time of 2:17:10 hours, taking the national title as the first Canadian home. He went on to make his international debut in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and finished in 25th place. He returned to the Toronto race the following year and knocked over five minutes off his personal best, recording a time of 2:11:22 hours for tenth place. In 2011, he ran the second-fastest marathon by a Canadian athlete, finishing third in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon on October 16, 2011, with a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 55 seconds. This time qualified him for the 2012 London Olympics, along with fellow Canadian Eric Gillis, in which he placed 27th.

                                                                                       

      3. Olivera Jevtić, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivera_Jevti%C4%87

Nationality          Serbian

Olivera Jevtić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Јевтић, born July 24, 1977) is a Serbian long-distance runner. She has represented her country four times at the Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.

Jevtić was born in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia, otherwise known presently as Užice, Serbia. Her parents are father Milorad and mother Draginja. She is based in her native city, coached by Slavoljub "Slavko" Kuzmanović, and she competes for the running club AK Mladost Užice. Jevtić holds the Serbian marathon record of 2:25:23, which she established at the Rotterdam Marathon in 2003. 

She won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In December 2007, coach Kuzmanović and Jevtić went on an altitude training trip to Eldoret, Kenya, when violent conflict erupted from the 2007 Kenyan election crisis. Although they wanted to continue working out in spite of the violence, her training partner, Stanley Kipruto, insisted that their lives were in danger and led them out of Eldoret so that they could leave the country from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After Jevtić and Kuzmanović were picked up by a Serbian diplomat-evacuation flight, Kipruto was caught by rebels, tortured, and lost four fingers. Subsequent to the violence in Kenya, Kipruto moved in to live with Jevtić and Kuzmanović in Užice and joined their running team Mladost.

She won the women's race at the Balkan Cross Country Championships in March 2011.

Jevtić was selected as young athlete of the year of 1996. In 2006 she was awarded Golden Badge of Sport, award for the sportperson of the Year in Serbia, and the same year, and the 1998 and 1999 was declared the best sportswoman by the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Jevtić was stripped of third place in 2002 New York City Marathon and received a public warning after testing positive for the banned drug ephedrine. The president of NYRR at the time, Alan Steinfeld, told the New York Times that it was likely an "innocent mistake" and that ephedrine is common in cough suppressants.

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    HATC -leirikeskuksen kuntosali on suuren suuri lukuisine kuntolaitteineen ja -välineineen.

    Jokaiselle jotakin ...

    ... ja vähän enemmänkin

    Näkymä kuntosalilta sisäpihalle

    Kuntosalille vievä polku

HATCin vanhin huolto- ja toimistorakennus, jossa ruokaillaan, mikäli leirikeskus on tupaten täynnä. Rakennuksen takana on edelleen käytössä myös vanhimmat leiriläisten huoneet.

Ohessa rivistö leiriläisten uudemmista huoneista uima-altaan vieressä. Minun huoneeni on rakennuksen päässä - toiseksi viimeinen ikkuna. Uusin ruokalarakennus ja viimeksi rakennetut leiriläisten huoneet löytyvät pensasaidan takaa.