Mere mortals might manage those nerves by studying the unique undulations of the course, which heads downhill for most of the first 26km, has four lung-busting uphills over the next 8km, then heads mostly down and flat to the finish. “It’s a huge experience and a different experience than many other marathons. “I don’t know what will happen at 10, 15, 25 kilometers,” he said during an interview last month from Kenya, where he was training. He especially wanted to run on the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, “to spread the word of positivity, the human family,” he said, even if he is feeling unsettled ahead of the competition in a way he is not used to feeling. But Boston is the oldest continuously run marathon, a race that Kipchoge said was on his bucket list for a while. Boston could not be more different from the mostly flat marathons in Berlin and London, races that can resemble time trials.Įven he doesn’t know how his body will react, or if he will be able to continue the magic. On Monday, though, Kipchoge will confront a new challenge as he tries to win the Boston Marathon, a historic, hilly beast of a course where tactics usually trump speed. That is an average pace of 2 minutes and 50 seconds per kilometer for the 42.2km race. ![]() He is the only human (as far as we know) to have run 42.2km in less than two hours, finishing a course in Vienna designed to optimize speed, with a pace team taking turns blocking the wind, in 1:59.40. It’s now down to 2 hours, 1 minute and 9 seconds. He breaks his own world record over and over. The technical term for that is “bananas.” ![]() His win in Berlin last year made him 17 for 19. NEW YORK - Eliud Kipchoge is marathon running’s ultimate speed demon.Įven at 38 years old, he still wins nearly every time he races.
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