Athletes exercise in the early morning in Iten, near the town of Eldoret, western Kenya, March 21, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
Others start small businesses to support themselves. Johana Kariankei lives in a training camp and sells souvenirs to foreign athletes there.
When not at his stall, he takes to the green open fields and dirt tracks around Iten to run. But better facilities would help, he said.
"We need good tracks to train in. This is the responsibility of the government to provide."