The business is all over Ethiopia not just Addis Ababa, and we employ more than 220 people.Īt about 12.30 each day I go back home and eat with my wife and family, though two of my three daughters are nowadays at school and so eat with their friends there. My wife Alem does most of the day to day work but I have everyone involved my uncles, cousins… I have a real estate company, we build a lot of houses, even a school, and the latest project has been a cinema and a health facility, you know with a steam sauna and weight training.
That’s not because I don’t or wouldn’t want to run, it’s just that the city is a very crowded place, and I would never make it on foot!Ĭertainly by 10am I have finished my training and I take a shower and some breakfast and then it’s time for me to go to my office. My house is just 5 kilometres from the track, and I take the car. On somedays when I am training in Addis Ababa stadium perhaps I will finish earlier, maybe 8am, and then take the opportunity to run outside the city. “I still get up just before 6am and go to training, which I do until about 9.30.
In the first of his journals for the IAAF internet, the quadruple World 10,000m champion gives us a small insight into his daily life – Haile Gebrselassie is a busy man nowadays and not just with his running.
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