Adam Holland is now set to be the sole ultra-runner completing a gruelling 100km each day for ten days on the Aegis Trust’s Run4Peace 2016 – a torch relay with a hundred 10km segments open to the public, passing through some of the UK’s biggest cities at the end of October to raise funds for […]
In 2015, Rob Young won the 3,131-mile ‘Race Across USA’ marathon series, crossing the finish line 30 hours ahead of his nearest rival (http://raceacrossusa.org/results/). Soon after, Rob Young and fellow endurance athlete Adam Holland between them ran and cycled over 2,200 miles around the UK in 25 days as part of the 2015 peace torch […]
Record-breaking distance runners Wilson Kipsang, Rob Young (Marathon Man UK) and Adam Holland today united to encourage runners across the UK to join Young and Holland for the 2016 Kenya Peace Torch Relay (21-30 October 2016: run4peace.co.uk). They were pictured at Tower Bridge with the relay torch, which began its journey in Kenya’s North Rift […]
Today Professor Elim Lokapel, formerly the Aegis Trust’s Representative in Kenya and the Principal of Mount Kenya University’s Kigali Campus, is being laid to rest in Turkana, Kenya. He died as the result of a progressive illness, aged just 48. A great believer in the importance of peacebuilding, his comments in the video above were […]
Launched in July with a ‘Champions walk for peace’ by some of the World’s greatest athletes to help raise funds for the Aegis Trust to establish a school for peace in Kenya’s troubled North Rift Valley, the Kenya peace torch relay has travelled over 3,500 miles across Kenya, the UK and USA in 2015 with […]
World record-breaking ultra runner Rob Young (‘Marathon Man UK’) last night became Monaco’s prestigious Peace & Sport Champion of the Year following an international online public vote.
He was nominated for the award after leading a 25-day, 2,200-mile torch relay around the UK with fellow record-breaker Adam Holland as part of the ‘Champions Walk for […]
An international 3,500-mile torch relay for peace in Kenya – launched by some of the World’s top athletes with the Aegis Trust in the country’s troubled North Rift Valley in July – reached its conclusion in New York on Monday, following the NYC Marathon, when US ultra-runners Alex Ramsey and Pat Sweeney handed back the […]
9 Oct 2015 – World record-breaking ultra runners Rob Young (Marathon Man UK) and Adam ‘Tango’ Holland yesterday completed their 25-day, 2200-mile torch relay across the UK for the Aegis Trust’s Champions Walk for Peace by presenting the torch to Ambassador Jackline Yonga, Deputy Head of Mission at Kenya’s High Commission in London.
Launched by some […]
Starting at the Great North Run, record-breaking ultra runners Rob Young and Adam Holland are going to relay a ‘torch for humanity’ as part of the international Champions Walk for Peace through over 400 cities, towns and villages around the UK, covering 1900 miles and climbing 75,000 feet in just 25 days.
Holland holds the World record […]
“We’re coming to Chicago, New York and London” – Gebrselassie
Joining some of Kenya’s biggest sports stars on Thursday at Lake Bogoria for the finale of their 522-mile walk for peace through the troubled North Rift Valley, where hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in a rising wave of ethnic violence, distance running legend Haile […]