Markus Roessel and Uli Fluhme with the 800m world record holder, Wilson Kipketer.

Last spring, Crusaders' Markus Roessel and Uli Fluhme (ex-Crusader, now based in NYC) decided to travel to Iten in Kenya where many of the top Kenyan runners live and train. We were fascinated by the fact that a small village hosts a majority of the world’s fastest runners. At the same time, we started the website www.mzungo.org to raise the profile of Kenyan and other distance runners.

Since then, they've enjoyed learning from the elite runners they've met along the way and have become friends with runners such as Hendrick Ramaala and Catherine Ndereba. At the moment, Uli and I are in Iten and to say we are very impressed would be a big understatement! If you are interested about what’s happening here, you can find stories and pictures each day on www.mzungo.org. You can also become a facebook friend of “Ask Mzungo”.