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London House Hotel
It's a small, simple place, with a few cows in a field out the back for milk. We sat and drank orange squash [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in her cramped living room and watched WWF wrestling. Whenever I asked her a question about running she laughed nervously and looked at her husband. And now here she is, charging through the streets of London,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the whole world watching as she runs the fourth-fastest marathon ever to win.
By the time she has finished, the men's race is hotting up. The lead pack [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] includes Emmanuel Mutai. I also spent a few days with him at his training camp just a few weeks ago, chatting with him as he scrubbed his running shoes in a bucket of cold water.I watched him on a long 38km training run demolish the rest of his camp – including a number of other top runners such as Bernard Kipyego, who came second in the Paris marathon just last week. I said to his coach, Patrick Sang, that no one in the media was talking about Emmanuel as a potential London marathon winner even though he came second last year. "That's because people who write for newspapers don't know what they're talking about," he replied with a big grin.
A big cheer goes up in the Klique hotel as Emmanuel surges to the front of the field at around 30km and starts leaving the others behind, and I find myself cheering and blowing my whistle like everyone else. It's strange watching him running on television through the streets of my home city, with the same fluid form [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and easy air he'd had on the dusty tracks of Kaptagat just weeks before.In the end, both winners are people I've spoken to recently. I feel a warm glow of connection as I tumble out of the bar with everyone else. In the street outside I bump into a few of Emmanuel's training partners, who smile and shake my hand. "Emmanuel ran well," they say calmly, almost expectantly. He has just become the fourth-fastest marathon runner ever. And won the London marathon. But to them, it's just another day's work.
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