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For sprinter Mark Otieno, training alone is almost business as usual

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National 100m record holder Mark Otieno with his wife Stephanie Mulluka-Otieno. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Learning to train away from the watchful eye of your coach is something many athletes have got used to this year, but for Mark Otieno, that’s business as usual.

The national 100m record holder lives in Nairobi, some 12,600km from his coach, Owen Anderson, who lives in Michigan, USA. And yet the arrangement works, through a combination of WhatsApps, emails and training videos flying back and forth across the Atlantic since they began working together in 2018.

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