Eliud Kipchoge for five years.
“We used to meet on the track and run together. He used to run cross-country – he was also a champion then,” said Mr Rotich.
“Then when I came to Dubai, we lost contact.”
Mr Rotich began running for his high-school team when he was
15.
.
“If you wake up in the morning, you find thousands of people running. The climate is good and it is hilly, which is good training because you run high altitude that is almost 2,000 metres
.”
Like many young athletes, his dream was to represent his country at the Olympic Games.
But his father died after Mr Rotich finished high school and he was left to put food on the family table”.