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Nyahururu’s 5000m star baffles coaches

Nyahururu’s 5000m star baffles coaches
Francis Abong (front) during a speed-work training session at the Nyahururu stadium on Wednesday. He had baffled coaches and colleagues with his fast learning curve in athletics. PD/David Macharia

A Nyahururu based athlete has left coaches wondering whether a good runner is made or born.

Francis Abong, who clocked what the coaches believe is the fastest time for a beginner, has left even his colleagues bewildered.

He did his second racing at national level during the Athletics Kenya 3rd weekend in Nairobi where he clocked 13 minutes and 59 seconds, finishing third in the fourth heat.There was no final for 5000 metres and top winners were decided on time.

He had also participated in the first weekend race which was also held in Nairobi and timed 14:18 which is an impressive time for an athlete running his first track race at national level.

But his first ever race was at the Ol Kalou leg of the Athletics Kenya (AK) Cross Country series where he dropped out midway.

“I realised he dropped out because he lacked pschological preparedness and we started working on that. Since then he has been participating in any race,” said Coach Francis Kamau of Esmi club of Nyahururu.

 Later he took part in the Nyandarua County Cross Country finishing 10th.  He went on to finish fourth at the Central Region Cross Country championships where he finished fourth, thus earning a place in the team to the National Cross Country championships in Eldoret where he finished 56th.

Abong had not known that he was a talented athlete until a clergyman advised him to shift from football and try his luck in on the track. 

The clergyman had spotted Abong’s extra ordinary speed in the pitch.

True to the man of God’s observation, Abong is proving to be a gem in waiting in 5000 metres event.

The runner used to play defense for Biba FC of Rumuruti, a soccer team formed by Bishop John Longisa of Bible Baptist Church to keep youth occupied and keep them from engaging in social ills that idle youth find themselves in. 

He told People Daily Sport after doing speed work at the Nyahururu stadium on Wednesday that he is not yet a pastor but an Evangelist who preaches in local schools and among his team mates during his free time.

 How did he find his way to the Club?

 “My Bishop told me that he has a friend who is an athletics coach and connected me with him (Coach Francis Kamau),” the runner said.

 The 26 year old athlete used to run during his days at Lodia Primary school in Naivasha where he was a pupil and lived with his father who was working in the area.

 After his father stopped working, they returned to their home in Rumuruti, Laikipia County where he engaged in tomato farming before the venture failed leaving him to do manual jobs for survival and playing for the Biba FC at the same time until April last year when he joined the Athletics Club in Nyahururu.

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