By Jonathan W. Rosen
Kelvin Kiptum’s final run began at an abandoned fluorspar mine on the floor of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. It was 6am on Sunday February 11th 2024 and he’d already been awake for two hours. He’d left his home while his wife and their two young children were still in bed and climbed into his silver Toyota Premio. He picked up his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, and three training partners, then drove down a rocky dirt road into the valley, stopping outside the gate to the mine. It was still dark, but the countryside was alive with birdsong and the jingling of cowbells.
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