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Smitta: Run, Cheche, run

Run, Cheche, run excerpt. Photo: Harry

At the back of the bus, that last Friday of September, 2017, it suddenly hit Cheche hard – what was actually at stake here. ‘If I win the nationals, I get to go and represent Kenya’s ‘under 18s’ in the 1500 metres, track race, World Junior Championship in Montreal, Canada, in 2018.’

In the March of 2018. Montreal, Quebec Province.‘... and I will only be fifteen, and in Form Two, and it will be awesome.’Another key word cut short Cheche’s daydream.

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