What happens when an American coach and exercise physiologist moves to a rural town in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to coach a group of Kenyan runners? Part storytelling, part training guide, Coaching the Kenyans is Dr. Jason Karp’s vivid account of living, coaching, and learning in the rural, high-altitude epicenter of distance running—Iten, Kenya—with its agrarian lifestyle and the undisputed best runners in the world.