| « Eritrea: 'Survivor' Contestant Semhar Tadesse arrested on suspicion of DUI - TMZ | Ethiopia: Illinois Fugitive Benyam Bereket-Ab Wanted for Rape » |
Ethiopia; Elite Marathoner Is Right at Home on the Streets of New York
advertisement10/31/11
Ethiopia; Elite Marathoner Is Right at Home on the Streets of New York
Ethiopia; Elite Marathoner Is Right at Home on the Streets of New York
Most mornings, Buzunesh Deba does as thousands of other running-mad New Yorkers do: she jumps out of bed, laces her sneakers and heads to the park.
And once she starts running, the questions from astonished strangers begin.
“They say, how come you are so fast?” said Deba, a tiny, bright-eyed 24-year-old who moved here from Ethiopia six years ago.
Deba is no casual weekend jogger. After finishing first this year in the L.A. Marathon and the San Diego Marathon, she is a contender to win the New York City Marathon on Nov. 6.
While many of her fellow elite marathoners decamp to sunnier, higher climes in Arizona, New Mexico, California and Europe, Deba has stayed in New York to train, sharing sidewalks with the amateurs who make up most of the city’s jogging population.
Read More from NYT
3 comments
Good luck our sister!!!!
Comment feed for this postComments are closed for this post.
