“Marathon training is tiresome, cumbersome, and very long,” he admitted of the long hours of training he puts in at the Global Sports Communication training camp in the small town of Kaptagat, southwest Kenya, where he leads a simple life. He’s just tapering down his training after four hard months of intense long runs and fartlek - the core of his marathon success. However, nothing comes easy when you are the greatest marathoner. His first race in Berlin in 2013, the year he debuted in the marathon, and the eighth-place finish at the 2020 London marathon held on a special circuit during Covid-19 restrictions. Of his 18 marathon starts, Kipchoge has only lost twice. His discipline in training is unrivalled. READ MORE: Eliud Kipchoge's record breaking career in numbers.Įliud Kipchoge: 'I don't know where my limit is' Kipchoge on fine tuning his mind ahead of 2022 Berlin raceĮliud Kipchoge is a man who is fully dedicated to the runs he loves. “I am the best one…I am going to Berlin to run a very good race that will make everybody get inspired and love marathons.” “I don't think I am going to run under two hours,” he said, making reference to his historic 1:59:40 run on a specially designed course in Vienna where he became the first man to run a sub-2-hour marathon but in conditions which don't qualify as an official world record. Kipchoge will, on Sunday 25 September, pound the streets of the German capital looking to push his limits further and go even faster than his world record of 2:01:39.

“I want to run a good race, be it a world record, a personal best, I want it to be it a good race,” the Kenyan told journalists on Saturday, September 17, a week before his fifth Berlin Marathon. 'How fast will you run this time? Is another world record on the way…'Īt 37, the double Olympic champion's appetite for success remains the same as it was for his first 42.2km (26.2 mile) race in Hamburg nearly a decade ago. So, whenever he lines up at the start, expectations are high. It is tough being the king of the marathon.Įliud Kipchoge has made the road race look like the easiest of runs.

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