Eliud Kipchoge looks forward to ‘beautiful race’ at NN Mission Marathon
Eliud Kipchoge looks forward to ‘beautiful race’ at NN Mission Marathon
“Sunday, personally, I will be running a very beautiful race,” he said in a pre-race press conference. “I call it beautiful because we are in need and tough times during the pandemic. “I want to run a beautiful race to show the world that actually we are on a huge, huge transition towards a great future.”
Mission Marathon/ Photo/NN Running
By
MICHEZOAFRIKA
17 Apr 2021
Twente Airport in the Netherlands on Sunday will see the Kenyan stretch his legs over 26.2 miles ahead of the defence of his Olympic title in Tokyo
Can Eliud Kipchoge Get Back to His Winning Ways on Sunday? Could He Be Left Off the Olympic Marathon Team?
Eliud Kipchoge is a man of routine. He has worked with the same coach,
Patrick Sang, since he was a 17-year-old in 2002. Over the ensuing 19 years, whenever he is training which is most of the year he has spent six days a week, Monday evening to Saturday morning, in the pared-down training camp run by his agency, Global Sports Communication, in Kaptagat, Kenya. Days in the camp tend to run together: morning runs, followed by mugs of steaming, milky tea. Chores or perhaps an afternoon nap. Another run, more tea, dinner, and bed. Track sessions on Tuesday, long runs on Thursday, intervals on Saturday before spending the weekend at home with wife Grace and his three children, all of it meticulously detailed in Kipchoge’s handwritten training logs.
Full Fields For NN Mission Marathon Are Released – Races Feature 11 Sub-2:10 Men and 11 Sub-2:30 Women
by LetsRun.com
Eliud Kipchoge that will take place at the Twente Airport in Enschede, The Netherlands.
Kipchoe is heavily favored to win but there are 5 other men who have broken 2:07 in the field and 5 more that have broken 2:10:00. The full men’s field appears below.
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Note, despite what the graphic above says, the race isn’t the debut for Augstine Choge. He was a DNF in Chicago in 2018 but his entry is interesting as the former 1:44 800 runner has said in the past he thinks he was in 2:07 shape for Chicago.