Andrew Cawthorne is chief correspondent for Reuters in east Africa. He has worked for Reuters since 1992 and has been based in Nairobi since 2005. In the following story slugged WITNESS-KENYA/RUNNING and headlined "WITNESS-Running in Kenya's land of the champions" he met -- and ran with -- some of the nation's top athletes preparing for the Olympics in a region hardest hit by Kenya's recent post-election violence.

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