In conversation, as on the course, he presents himself as the epitome of clean living, clean training, and clean thinking. So far in our talk, Kipchoge has been affable and polite. The work of Monday is done (a long-ish run in the morning and an easy hour in the afternoon), and dinner awaits. It’s the end of a Monday at his training camp in Kaptagat, Kenya, where he arrived this morning after spending most of the weekend with his wife, Grace Sugut, and their three children at home 20 miles away, and where he’ll stay until he goes back on Saturday, as he does each week. Get the Mag Runner's World Courtesy NN Running Team My mind is still moving, the body still absorbing the training.This article appears in Issue 3 / 2023 of Runner’s World. I need to celebrate this record and have to realise what happens. Kipchoge is the only man to run a sub-two hour marathon when he clocked 1:59.40 on a specially designed track in Vienna in 2019 but the time is not officially recognised as it was not set in competition.Īsked whether he would attempt a sub-two hour run in Berlin next year, Kipchoge said: "Let us plan for another day. With a final 500-metre sprint passing through the city's iconic Brandenburg Gate just as the sun started to emerge, a beaming Kipchoge crossed the finish line to cement his status as one of the greatest runners of all time.įellow Kenyan Mark Korir completed a one-two finish for the African nation, four minutes and 49 seconds behind, with Ethiopian Tadu Abate third. The Kenyan, who retained his Olympic at the Tokyo Games last year, had fallen short of his world mark by just over a minute at the Tokyo Marathon in March, but he was not to be denied in Berlin. ![]() Belihu finally dropped back around the 27 kilometre-mark as Kipchoge pushed on for the record.
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