 Welcome back, it is the touchline here on Y254 Robert Osoro, it is my name and today I'm hanging out with one of Nairobi's favourite sons. I think from those songs you already know who I'm talking about. Francis, I miss you. Frasha is in the studio here with us. Frasha, how are you doing? I'm good, maze. San tesana kwa invitiya kwa mashkulu. It's been a long time. It's been a long, long, long time. Yeah, I used to be young when you were coming out, but now I'm older. Why is that? Yes, and also we are joined by Eunice Iraqi here in studio with us. And they are going to talk about one of Nairobi's exciting events. They are going to talk about our city, what is happening in our city. And they have something to tell us on everything that we are going to tell us. Eunice Iraqi, welcome to Y254. The first time we are meeting. How are you doing? Thank you. Good, very good. Excellent. You are doing very great. That is great. Welcome to the city under the sun. And we are here to talk about everything that is happening under the sun. And you are one guy who wants to celebrate Nairobi city. Why do you want to celebrate Nairobi city? Because Nairobi is a beautiful city. I mean, it's so beautiful. You have so many beautiful places for runners. Like Karura, Arboretum, Ololuwa, even state areas that are really nice. And the city run, Nairobi run is the celebration of the city and the celebration of the runners. So this is how we are doing it. And we are contributing also to a cause in the city, which is Kibira 7. One thing that fresh you have come here for is Nairobi run. And we want to know, what is Nairobi run? Nairobi run is a celebration of the city. We are celebrating runners, we are celebrating the beauty of Nairobi. Kanaero. But because we live here, we don't see the beauty of Nairobi. There are so many beautiful places that we can go run. Kusabu say any time ya COVID also, it's good to keep fit. And the run is not about elite runners. It's a celebration of just normal runners, people like me and you. Kwa toa kuna vitambi. Kini bieki dogwa tende within a short place. And that's what it is. And also the Nairobi run is on the 14th and 15th of August. And there is no time, there is no gathering, there is no medal. We are celebrating everybody. If you register, you get a t-shirt. 500 people get a medal. I think it's a new concept that personally I liked it from the beginning. And I've been supporting it. When Nairobi is one of the beautiful cities, if actually you look at the Nairobi view, you've got to enjoy it. If you travel all over the world, even when you are watching movies, there are those iconic buildings, those iconic places. When you just look at them, you can see, I know that is Nairobi. I can realize that is Joe Bug, that is Budapest and all that. I know you are bringing this to Nairobi. What is that motivation? What motivated you to say we want to celebrate Nairobi? Well, actually we are doing Nairobi. We are doing Mombasa. We are celebrating all the major cities of Kenya. So we are starting with Nairobi. But then we are moving to Mombasa, where we have also beautiful places. Kenya is beautiful. If you travel you will see how beautiful, I mean you know it. So it's very beautiful. We are from abroad. I mean it shows even more because you are not used to it. You don't see it every day. For example in Nairobi, when I talk about Karura, when I talk about Arboretum, when I talk about Ololuwa, I mean a lot of these places, even people in Nairobi, they don't know them very well. That's very true. Like even the company, I mean the people, there are some places they didn't go to before. Because you are used to it, you pass next to it. But when you go inside and you see how beautiful it is, it's really nice. So that's what we are doing with the concept. We are featuring these places. We are showing it, like all of them. And we are even asking whoever registered or just go to our website to recommend other places and keep on discovering new places. One thing that you have actually brought out of this is that you are not going to the athletics way where we usually close the roads. But you are going to Arboretum, you are going to Karura forest and all that. Why did you go to those places? As you said, this run is not for elite runners. We run in Wakawaida. So we went to places where people run normally. So for example, there are people who are running in Roondah estate. And they have a nice place to run. The other thing I think, is that we have one of the best weather in the whole world. And we don't celebrate it. But that is something in other countries that it's hard to be found. The temperatures for running in our countries are very good temperatures. And I think where I come from, my background is I'm a physiotherapist. And because of my background, I know the importance of actually doing exercises. And so these places that we have that people are running in, they are normal places where groups run because we have many groups that have joined the run that come there and run. So I think it's important the routes that are given by the runners who are in the run. So these are running clubs that are out there. Now you are bringing them on to the limelight and everything. I think one of the things the audience would like to know is how do you register so that you can participate in the run. So to register it's very simple. You go to the website www.nirobi.run and you click on the button register and then you follow all the steps. It's very simple. You just need to visit www.nirobi.run. So this is how people register. I just want to add one thing. Maybe we didn't talk enough about this. When we said we celebrate the city of Nairobi, it's not only the places we talked about. We have other places and the runners groups are organizing some runs like in Tigoni. We have David Tuo. He's organizing a run, a small group in Karin Waterfront. We have Douglas Wakihuri who is really one of the legends. We talked about the elite runners. I mean, that's the first Olympic middleist of Kenya, champion of so many places. He's a legend and he's also part of it and he's helping us a lot and he will be running in Gongoro Sanctuary Forest. So other places, I mean, we have a list of all the groups. I mean, I just want to mention all the runners groups maybe so that's to acknowledge, I mean, all of them who are part. So we successfully managed to have most of the runners groups with us. So we have Team Jashu. I mean, he's one of the most famous groups, runners groups in Nairobi. We will be running in Arboretum. We have Wakimbusi. Also they will be running in another place. We have like Hash Harriers who will be organizing also a run in another place. We have Tipua Tipua who are also with us. Actually they were with us on TV, on KBC2. We have Yurban Swaras who are also organizing a run. We have the Swamp Runners and we have even some runners because we are celebrating the runners and anyone who is active in the running exactly so that we feature them in our website, we feature them in our social media and we allow people to get to know about them and reach out to them directly. So we have, for example, Katara Wala, if you know her, like she's a famous runner. She draws things while she with her itinerary while she run. So she will be also running. I think in Karura we have Kenya Run in Diva and it's gone and we have also celebrated. It's like fresh air. It's good news. For your group. Tipua Tipua Tipua. Actually we came here with shorts and everything and we are going straight to Karura to run and walk. Actually for Nairobi run you can even walk if you want. So because it's not about, it's not a competition, it's a fun run. We have forgot to name them like woman run and walk group. Also they are with us and they will be participating. I cannot see where exactly, but I'll take my glasses. Just who they are. There you can see. They will be in Karura. A quick one that we are going to tell you right now. We are actually having one minute to the 100 meters it won and Mako Tiyono, the Kenyan is not on the starting list of that one and it's actually because of doping. He had requested for his sample B to be tested. It has been tested and is not in that one. Mako Tiyono is out of the 100 meters it in the Olympic teams. It's not our Olympic here, but what can we do? It is the rules and Mako Tiyono is out of that one. But we are still here on the touch land. Robert Rosoro Maxwell is not here with us today but I'm hanging out with the UNESCO Iraqi Action Marketing Plus and Frasha Nmkali himself is actually in the studio and he's talking about his own team Tim Kubwa is in Nairobi. Tim Kubwa. I have a team it's called Tim Frasha. We normally practice on Saturdays at 2pm. So after here we head in straight to Karura and basically my team is very small but I'm hoping to get new guys and new members to show these other guys what we can be able to do. So again kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa? I cut you short there when we were talking about other teams that are actually in this competition. So it is happening on different Nairobi places on the 2 days of 14th and 15th and at the same time well actually I mean we would have loved to have like different places happening with the start and finish but if you know with covid I mean that's why we from the beginning since we are doing this in covid we are not having any large gathering in any place and in any time and that's why the Nairobi run was designed this year this way so it's overtime so it's a week and we are even considering extending few more days so that people can even run this Monday or Tuesday and still be part of Nairobi run and we have like a lot of locations we have the places that we have listed but actually it's happening in so many places I couldn't say all the names it's lower Kabete so we have Wakimbuzi there Hashaliyos will be in Parak Club we have some people who register and they will be running in South B Bypass it's really almost everywhere like Tigoni, Swamp Runners will be in Tigoni Davitu will be in Karain Waterfront and anyone can run anywhere so it's not like they it's not mandatory to run in these places and the fact that it will be spread in all these places spread over weekend and spread over the hours of the weekend so each time it will be just a small weekend each time it will be just a small group or someone running alone so what we are doing is that you register you can run anywhere our objective is to have people spread running over this weekend there is no start no finish there is no distance it's really a fun run it's about enjoying running and when you see Russia it's all about fun how do you make this event fun because Nairobi as we know it we are fun people we come out to have fun when we want to first of all it's incorporating more celebrities in the run and sensitizing people it's good to stay healthy but apart from that anywhere anybody who knows me and anywhere I am me ma li pa shere atua kifunga tutapige shere so the shere that we'll be doing this time is walking, networking running and because of the rules that we have right now we cannot go all out and make it very the fun that we are used to so we are limiting it and also sensitizing people more but also something else that the reason why I also got involved with the run is because of the charity bit of it because part of the proceeds go to supporting a charity school it's called Kibera 7 which is a school in Kibera so I've been doing a lot of charity with my foundation, first foundation so I saw it nice for me to be able to get into something that helps me become healthy and also helps me give back to the society so for me, for the organizers I think that was a brilliant idea of coming up with how we can impact our own society as we help also our health Kibera 7 is our primary or secondary school so actually it's not only a school so just to give you an idea why we got involved with Kibera 7 so Douglas Wakihuri has been helping us and he is still helping us really involved helping us promoting the event and he is involved with Kibera 7 so that's a project that he is helping financially and with time and Kibera 7 they have a school and they have a running club also so the school they have about I was there like 2 days ago with Santos who is managing it and they are like having about 170 little less than 170 kids that they take care of they are like for the school and they have this running club where they try to identify potential runners with Douglas Wakihuri being involved so we are helping them and not only this we can also be featuring them and even if people don't register to Nairobi Run they will be able to help them directly so we publish this in the coming days in our social media and we promote it to make sure Kibera 7 is well is known and people can reach out to them directly and help them they don't need to register on Nairobi Run to help them they can even contact them directly so that's what will be publishing soon and hopefully they will get some help because they need it they are doing a great job helping kids they are also feeding every Saturday they do a feeding program where they are very often obliged to limit the number of kids that they feed so that's really a nice project a big one there and it is the first time that Nairobi Run is coming to Nairobi this will be the first event for Nairobi Run so on the weekend of 14 and 15 that will be next Saturday and Sunday you wanna have fun Nairobi Run is something you wanna go to it is www.nirobirun.com dot run but you can even if you type Nairobi Run.com it goes to the same place it goes to the same place so that's where you can get Nairobi Run first event first on 14th of 15th but fresh up will it be happening all the time or just one off event will it be happening again this is the first time we are doing it but I know it's going to be every year I am hoping so because we have already gotten people that are involved because this is the first time and we are limited a lot with the COVID rules hopefully by next year if we behave well we can be able to do a better event sensitive area there when it comes to the COVID-19 and the protocols when it comes to COVID-19 how are you dealing with that so we are very strict about it we are following the recommendations of the authorities Ministry of Health Ministry of Sports it's on our website with all the details and all the runners will have to follow this this is not a joke it's COVID so we have to be careful and we have to follow the government instructions so people will run with social distancing they will have masks and we are following the rules and we are making it clear we will be even in our social media posting about it also to make sure that we would love to see everyone following this and the fact that we are not organizing one large gathering that's also a good thing because people will be running in small groups so it will be easier or alone we are going there in Nairobi and that will be coming on the 14th and 15th of August 2019 Robert Rosoro here for the Touchland Unis Iraqi Action Marketing Places here with us to talk about Nairobi run and also and I've got fresh also in the studio my director is telling me that I've said 2019 2021 well I think it's because of this Olympics and everything that is happening there here that Mako Tiano has actually appealed and is waiting for that decision to come so let's expect that sample B of his test will be the correct one and he'll be representing Kenya on the 100 meters run New Zealand have won the women's rugby gold medal after defeating France 26-5 in that one so most of the updates of what is happening in the Olympics will be giving you that one and will be telling you all that is happening but we are still hanging out here and we are talking about Nairobi run and everything that is going to happen on that weekend fun and activity is what people usually come out for and this one coming out as this one what makes this different fresh first of all for me I think it's it has been a difficult time I've been COVID doing events and the fact that we've been able to separate people the fact that excuse me we've been able to get different groups to run and work together I think it's different in a lot of ways the run itself again there's no competition there's no time that you're supposed to gather around you can run on your own time there's no particular place that you're supposed to be so the run in itself the way it is it's been packaged I think it's a totally different new idea Younes if I was to ask you one place in Nairobi that is your favorite which one will it be? Well that's tricky question that's tricky question there are a lot of places I mean there are a lot of places I don't want to upset some people by saying this one or this one but I mean it's really all of them are beautiful the place I go often but it's because it's more convenient for me it's Karura Karura is a beautiful forest but I've been to other places I don't even know the name I went with the hash Harriers to run with them like 2 weeks ago on Sunday we went to Georgia and we went 10 kilometers off road and we end up in a place so beautiful and I cannot even tell you what's the name of the place because it's I think it doesn't have a specific name for anybody it's so beautiful and we spent an amazing day really very nice day a lot of places you know it's difficult to say this one you have Alboritum you have Ololuwa which is really wonderful you have even some state areas that are really beautiful yes Frasha William Kenyem you have been here you have grown in Nairobi and everything what is it about Nairobi that you don't want to live in Nairobi I think first of all it's the people there's a strong will of the people the spirit of the people in Nairobi I think that makes it a bit unique and also because it's a city under the sun I'm telling you the weather in Nairobi is sometimes you complain it's cold but if you go into other places you'll realize that one of the biggest blessings that we have in Nairobi is the weather also something that I want to add on to what Yonez has just said I think our country is very beautiful personally I've worked with them I've gone with them I've travelled with them around Kenya and we've been to very beautiful places that personally been you know, having grown in Kenya I've not even thought of visiting and you know me I'm just an example there are a lot of people that have not been able to travel because they don't even know where they are from so it's time for us to start discovering our own city there are people who live in Isili and Madare and one time in Kujakarura but if we start you know telling guys it's about time you just talk to them discover your town discover the new places the nice places that are there in this city I think people will be amazed by how beautiful Nairobi is it's actually a very big challenge to any Kenyan outside there because it is our city and actually it is true that many people don't know their city and I can give you a secret many people pass through Nairobi museum but they have never actually gone to Nairobi museum aboretum people pass through there but they have never gone into that place so these are chance for you to go outside there and actually enjoy Nairobi run first repeat for us registration and everything and people know that they are going to participate in this one and how will people know that this is Nairobi run outside there when the others are running they will see them with the t-shirt Nairobi run t-shirt actually when you register you get a t-shirt like a runner t-shirt I mean this is the one we are wearing so it's a polyester and rice knit so it's really made for runners so it's a good quality t-shirt and once you run and you upload your run details on the website and as Frascha said it's not important like the time you feel it you can just put an estimate you don't even need to monitor it and prove it or whatever what counts is the beautiful picture of the place you are running so that you can show this to the community this is my place this is the place I run and everyone will be posting a beautiful picture so it's completely new concepts different concepts of the run I just want to add one thing because we are talking about the beauty of Kenya the beauty of the places we said that we are not doing only Nairobi run we will do Mombasa run we will do Kisumu run we will do Machakos run we will do Diani run we will do Eldoret run and we travel to all these places together with Frascha I mean it has been very helpful we met with the runners there we went to like Bamburi we went to in Kisumu to the places where people run we went to Eldoret looking for places what are the beautiful places so we did all this before starting Nairobi run and our objective after is not only have Nairobi people discover the beautiful places of Nairobi is to have all the runners community or walkers whoever is interested in participating to go and discover even the other cities because even the other cities they have beautiful places to show Machakos we went to a forest that was so amazing you remember yeah and I've been I'm born in Machakos the place is close to where I come from but I've never gone there so I think it is important for people to start discovering and even from the people of the company who are here in their places they didn't know about because when you are used to it and you pass next to it as you said so with this we'll be able to feature it and hopefully people will be travelling from one city to the other and hopefully this COVID will be over soon and we'll have start and finish and it will be so that people again can enjoy running together but big one there finally fresh any new songs we should be waiting for I've been out of the studio for the past four years we took a break from music let's say something might be developing but at the end of the day Nairobi run is what is happening we have been hanging out with the fresh here in the studio for Nairobi run and Eunice Iraqi also came here to talk about Nairobi run and everything that is happening let's go for a short commercial break when we come back we'll be talking some matters and everything that is happening there and also we've got fans on and transfers and rumours on everything that is happening in the world of football it is the touch land Y254 I'm Robert Osoro