Uganda, March 29 -- Two years ago, Racheal Zena Chebet escaped death. On her way back home to Kapchorwa after competing at the National Track & Field Athletics Championships in Namboole, Chebet in company of her husband Ben Siwa survived a nasty accident.

She however soaked in pain in the back and around her waist. Chebet earlier that month had won a 10000m silver medal at the Africa Senior Athletics Championships and then the 25-lap national title.

The impact of the accident affected her onwards. She labored to compete and ended up 10th at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in England.

"By the time I finished the Commonwealth Games, the pain was too much," she recalls. Chebet eventually sat out and did less, only running to second plac...