Driven with Jake and Zane Robertson Premieres Tomorrow

Nov 11, 2013 by FloTrack Staff

In March of 2007, Jake and Zane Robertson, just seventeen at the time, left their home in New Zealand for the World Cross Country Championships in Mombassa, Kenya, and haven't been back since.

Their journey--from elite high school runners to World Championship qualifiers--has been largely speculative: what are they doing over there? What is their life like in Africa? Can two kids from a westernized country actually live an austere, Kenyan lifestyle?

Flotrack's new two-part Driven series finally sheds light onto the lives these two twins have been living day in and day out for the past six years. Each video will highlight one twin, seeing how the train and live without running water, sometimes without electricity, and for a while in the beginning, sleeping on the floor.

It's something many runners talk about, the sort of daydream of eating, sleeping, and running that seems glamorous and sometimes necessary to become elite. But in that dream, many people forget about the small things. How do you eat? Where do you sleep? Who do you train with in a place thousands of miles away from anyone you know?

Jake and Zane's Driven will answer these questions. You'll see the good and the bad, and a get a glimpse into the life that these two set out to make for themselves six short years ago.

Part I premieres November 12th, part II Premieres November 19th. Sign up for a FloPro account today.

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