Tegla Loroupe: Marathon Hero
Bedtime History: Inspirational Stories for Kids and Families
Bedtime History
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🗓️ 8 October 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Learn about Tegla Loroupe, the little girl from Africa who grew up to be a famous marathon runner and inspiration to her people.
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| 1:12.4 | Tonight our story begins in Africa in the small village of Kudamwani, Kenya. |
| 1:18.9 | In the village lives a little girl named Tehla. Tehla is very small for her age but makes up for it |
| 1:29.0 | with a big heart and a big smile. Life in Kudamwani isn't easy. Most of the families are very poor |
| 1:38.0 | and don't have electricity or water to use in their home. They work very hard and often have very |
| 1:45.4 | little to eat. Every morning Tehla wakes up very early and feeds her family's animals and then |
| 1:55.6 | makes breakfast for her brothers and sisters and helps them dress for the day. As soon as she's |
| 2:02.1 | done with her chores she races out the door and out onto a dusty road. Tehla goes to school like |
| 2:11.2 | most children but her school is six miles away which is very very far. She doesn't have a car or a bus |
| 2:21.6 | so she has to go there on foot but Tehla doesn't just walk to school. She runs |
| 2:29.9 | in her bare feet but Tehla loves running. At first she didn't love running to school. She only ran |
| 2:42.5 | because she didn't want to be late but the more she ran the more she loved it. She could run the |
| 2:49.2 | entire way without stopping once. As she got older Tehla wanted to run in a race but others said |
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