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Kenya consistently produces the world's best distance runners. So what makes runners from this East African country so great?

Below are stories that try to answer that question.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/

https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20828246/why-are-kenyan-distance-runners-so-fast/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527638

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/running-circles-around-us-east-african-olympians-advantage-may-be-more-than-physical/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26589124

https://www.motivrunning.com/runner-training/lessons-worlds-best-runners/

https://runnersconnect.net/diet-of-kenyan-runners/

https://www.businessinsider.com/rift-valley-kenya-training-ground-world-best-runners-2019-11

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnmxn9/photographing-the-kenyan-valley-that-produces-the-worlds-best-runners

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/africa/kenya-runners-win-marathons-trnd/index.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/01/241895965/how-one-kenyan-tribe-produces-the-worlds-best-runners

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/04/361403249/what-makes-kenyas-marathon-runners-the-worlds-best