East African athletics has been in the doping spotlight, but Michael Crawley found the Ethiopian running scene to be guilty only of ignorance and naivety
DISTANCE runner Michael Crawley of Corstorphine AC made significant progress in 2015 with second place in the Scottish 10-mile championships and fourth place in the Manchester Marathon in 2:19:39 and earned his first GB vest.
The Edinburgh University student is not involved in serious racing in the UK this year as he has “gone native” for a year in Ethiopia as a consequence of undertaking research work related to an economics based Phd he is studying for, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRB).
Zeleke rise at dawn to start training for running, which is a huge sport in their country
He is training hard as part of an Ethiopian training group which has athletes of varying abilities (by British standards some are good, some are superb) but his altitude experience is significantly different to the usual groups of UK-supervised athletes at places such as Iten in Kenya. It is most unusual for the group he is with to have a non-Ethiopian training with them. Also, because he is part of their community for such an extended period of time, the free flow of chatter on all manner of subjects (yes, Michael is mastering the local language!) takes place as with any training group.
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