On this week's episode of The Aid Station, we travel to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as we meet John Addison who was the originator of the Kili Marathon back in 2002 and later the iconic Vic Falls Marathon on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. He said it was a spark of an idea over a cold “Kili” beer after meeting guests who were climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

Hear how that idea has grown into an experience for 12,000 runners from close to 60 countries and created a massive health and wellbeing impact in addition to an enormous economic impact on the town of Moshi. This year’s COVID-adjusted event in February attracted 9,000 runners.

“When we started with around 250 participants there were perhaps 2-3 runners in Moshi and the surrounding area – there are now thousands. On race weekend every hotel in the town is full, people sleep in their cars and some travel over 125km on race morning to get to the start” says John.

Watch our conversation here: https://youtu.be/6nPziN9n1TE