“At the starting line, I knew I had trained my body well, it just felt right, and I was the only one with a world’s leading time this year among my competi- tors and so, I was expecting to win the title,” she tells me. She had been seeing a continuous progress in her time from the previous year.
I asked her what makes a world champion, out of all the thousands of ath- letes training in the world, and she gave me three words: Consistency, goal and vision. “Most athletes expect to achieve much after training for just three years! It takes time and patience to achieve great things in this field”.
ASM: “Do you have a history of runners in your family?” I enquired.
Edna: “No one I know in my family used to run. I have two brothers who played football fairly well.” She replied. “Actually, our family is known more for academic excellence than for sports. We have many professionals out- side the field of sports.”
As for her training bases, she prefers training at Iten, while in Kenya, and in Boulder, Colorado, while in the USA, where her manager Brendan Reilly lives.
She is looking forward to and anticipating to win a gold medal again in next year’s Olympic Games in London, but she knows it will be a very competi- tive field with the presence of her compatriot and friend Mary Keitany, among others. However, we concluded the interview and she and her hus- band offered to drive me off to the main road on their way to visit Keitany. As I recounted my earlier meeting with a contractor working on her new mansion, I could understand why he regarded her with great respect. To the contractor, she is a lady who keeps her word.
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