“My legs were running actually very fast. “I was planning to go through it 60:50, 60:40,” Kipchoge said. He still won by 4:49 over Kenyan Mark Korir. Kipchoge slowed in the final miles, running 61:18 for the second half after going out in an unprecedented 59:51 for the first 13.1 miles. Kipchoge, 37 and a two-time Olympic champion, earned his 15th win in 17 career marathons to bolster his claim as the greatest runner in history over 26.2 miles. Albertson, who was one of the top Americans in each of the last two years, said it’s just like other sports where the best team gets everyone else’s best effort.Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke his own world record in winning the Berlin Marathon, clocking 2:01:09 to lower the previous record time of 2:01:39 he set in the German capital in 2018. “Eliud’s arrival in Boston is beyond much-anticipated,” said Jack Fleming, the president of the Boston Athletic Association, which pursued Kipchoge for years before he committed last year with a handshake and the word: “Finally.”Įven the other competitors are looking forward to lining up against him, knowing that a win with Kipchoge in the field would be especially meaningful. Kipchoge also had his own news conference on Friday after the traditional pre-race scrum where the other elite athletes were distributed around tables in a hotel ballroom.
“I don’t mind about time,” he said, “but I will try to win.”ĭuring a training run along the Charles River this week, gawkers were shocked to see a world-class athlete in their midst. He said he knows it is not a course that lends itself to fast times, and he would be quite satisfied to win a slower and more tactical race.
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