![]() ![]() ![]() In Kansas City, Missouri, an elementary school class with many African refugee children who worship Kipchoge, was assigned to write an essay with the prompt “no human is limited.” Their teacher, Megan Jefferson, is running the marathon on Monday, too.īut this race has toppled greats before. Kipchoge’s Zen-like bravado - his slogan has become “no human is limited” - has turned him into a folk hero across the globe. “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. (On Running via The New York Times)Įven he doesn’t know how his body will react, or if he will be able to continue the magic. Obiri moved from Kenya to Boulder, Colo., to chase a running accomplishment she has yet to achieve: dominance in the marathon. An undated photo provided by On Running shows Hellen Obiri on a long training run in Colorado. Boston could not be more different from the mostly flat marathons in Berlin and London, races that can resemble time trials. 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 4 minutes and 34.5 seconds for the 26.2 mile race. He is the only human (as far as we know) to have run 26.2 miles 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.
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