Distance runner Hellen Obiri is moving thousands of miles Olympus from her home in Kenya to pursue her marathon ambitions – KION546

Distance runner Hellen Obiri is moving thousands of miles Olympus from her home in Kenya to pursue her marathon ambitions – KION546

Etsy By George Ramsay, CNN When Hellen Obiri moves nearly 9,000 miles from Kenya to Colorado later this year, she already knows she’ll miss some of the comforts of home. That includes Kenyan food and the country’s staple of ugali — a dense porridge made from maize flour. ‘Kenyans, we like eating ugali,’ Obiri tells CNN Sport. ‘I will have to find where I’m going to make my Kenyan food over there (in the United States).’ A good ugali may hold the keys to successfully fueling the next steps of her distance-running career.