After running for many years, Henry Rono has taken an unexpected path back to home of Kenya where he has been reflecting on what he’d call his greatest accomplishments.
Rono’s early years were marked by accidents that affected him for most of his childhood. A bicycle accident meant that Rono unable to move until he was six, and his father died in a tractor accident that made Rono and his mother struggle.
He became interested in running when he finished seventh grade at the age of nineteen. From there he was enlisted in the army, where he spent time training, and that’s how his running talent expanded.
Many considered Rono the most skillful runner of his generation. In the 1970s, the Kenyan boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Summer Games gave Rono no opportunity for Olympic glory, but he was still able to set a remarkable track record in 1978.
He said, “Running to me was second nature, education was my weakness.”
At the height of his career, he went to the United States, and he had little confidence in speaking and writing English. Later in life, he applied to a community college, and earned a mastery of English.
Paying money for fees had been a problem for Rono, and in 2019, for the first time in many years, he went back to Kenya and settled in his brother’s home.
Rono is a runner with talent and persistence, and he is a role model for kids who like to run.
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Rono’s early years were marked by accidents that affected him for most of his childhood. A bicycle accident meant that Rono unable to move until he was six, and his father died in a tractor accident that made Rono and his mother struggle.
He became interested in running when he finished seventh grade at the age of nineteen. From there he was enlisted in the army, where he spent time training, and that’s how his running talent expanded.
Many considered Rono the most skillful runner of his generation. In the 1970s, the Kenyan boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Summer Games gave Rono no opportunity for Olympic glory, but he was still able to set a remarkable track record in 1978.
He said, “Running to me was second nature, education was my weakness.”
At the height of his career, he went to the United States, and he had little confidence in speaking and writing English. Later in life, he applied to a community college, and earned a mastery of English.
Paying money for fees had been a problem for Rono, and in 2019, for the first time in many years, he went back to Kenya and settled in his brother’s home.
Rono is a runner with talent and persistence, and he is a role model for kids who like to run.
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