{"id":8651,"date":"2020-05-29T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:38:33","slug":"kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","title":{"rendered":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n

And one man seems to follow in Wooden\u2019s wise words: John Chumo, an athletics coach based in Kapsabet.<\/p>\n

At the Eliud Kipchoge Athletics Training Camp, in Nandi County, which is under construction, one would be mistaken to think the contractor has hired a landscaper.<\/p>\n

A man is unusually busy planting and watering grass at the facility, which is funded by Nandi County government.<\/p>\n

Chumo, a 52-year-old coach, is not your ordinary trainer.\u00a0He has coached the 2019 INEOS 1:59 challenge pacesetter and two-time Rotterdam marathon winner Marius Kipserem as well as women 3000 metres steeple chase world record Beatrice Chepkoech.<\/p>\n

When all athletics camps in Kenya were closed in March over Covid-19 pandemic, Chumo\u2019s camp was no exception. He had no option but to release the 40 athletes at his Kapsabet base.<\/p>\n

Hi once busy schedule was now reduced to hours of idling around. It\u2019s then that he decided to volunteer at the training centre, which was established in honour of world marathon record holder, Eliud Kipchoge.<\/p>\n

When his 10,000m running career was cut short by an injury in 1993, Chumo decided to coach junior runners from Kapsabet and since then, he has never turned back.<\/p>\n

His coaching prowess has produced some big names in the track and field sport.<\/p>\n

From former 800m world champion Janet Jepkosgei to Pamela Jelimo, an Olympic champion in the same distance, to two-time world marathon champion Abel Kirui, Chumo has nurtured young talents before releasing them to leading managers including the Global Sports and Rosa Associati.<\/p>\n

Chumo takes pride in having nurtured former 800m Olympic champion Wilfred Bungei.<\/p>\n

The endless list of prot\u00e9g\u00e9s also includes Milka Chemos, Lawi Kiptum and Lydia Chepkwony.<\/p>\n

He also coaches junior athletes seeking academic scholarships in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy aim is to make this pitch a masterpiece because this is where I intend to produce the next generation of track stars and marathoners,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He was accompanied by Bill Kiptoo, a young athlete who had landed an academic scholarship at the University of North Carolina. He was to travel to the US before travel restrictions were issued over Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The 3000m athlete now trains under coach Chumo but sends his training recordings to his US coach who is closely monitoring his progress.<\/p>\n

He has planted and nurtured grass at the Kipchoge Athletics Training camp for three weeks and says he will not stop until the pitch is green.<\/p>\n

\u201cI released my athletes and gave them training instructions after closure of training camps was ordered. But two weeks later, I felt lonely and idle after spending a lot of my time at home and thought of the new training camp,\u201d Chumo said.<\/p>\n

He says his decision to plant and nurture grass at the county sports facility was primarily to prepare the grounds for a rigorous coaching session once normalcy returns.<\/p>\n

Chumo says he felt delays in completion of the sports ground would have dealt a blow to the Kenya Secondary Schools national athletics championships which were set to take place in Kapsabet in April.<\/p>\n

It was his dream, he says, for the schools competition to take place in the county that has produced veteran athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came here and found a bare field. A week later, even without notifying the contractor, I came with a hoe and started planting grass because I felt the contractor might delay finishing up with the work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kiptoo said it has been easy for young athletes, who remained in Kapsabet after closure of training camps, to seek advice from Chumo because he is ever at the new sports facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201d And one man seems to follow in Wooden\u2019s wise words: John Chumo, an athletics coach based in Kapsabet. At the Eliud Kipchoge Athletics Training Camp, in Nandi County, which is under construction, one would be mistaken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[3867,476,3866],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-athletics-training-camp","tag-eliud-kipchoge","tag-john-wooden"],"yoast_head":"\nKapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"432\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\"},\"wordCount\":624,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Athletics Training Camp\",\"Eliud Kipchoge\",\"John Wooden\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\",\"name\":\"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":432},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success - kenya","description":"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success","og_description":"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":432,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success","datePublished":"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success"},"wordCount":624,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg","keywords":["Athletics Training Camp","Eliud Kipchoge","John Wooden"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success","name":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg","datePublished":"2020-05-29T19:38:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"John Wooden, a former American basketball player and all-time head coach, once said; \u201cMake each day your masterpiece.\u201dAnd one man seems to","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/vorvqvat1nkps8mnud5ed01f08c31a1.jpg","width":800,"height":432},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kapsabet-where-coach-chumo-plants-seeds-of-success#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kapsabet, where coach Chumo plants seeds of success"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}