In looking back on the race, there is some wonder whether Kipchoge’s plan was to see how long he could keep a pace of sub-two hours.
Sang said he does not discuss time goals with his students - “Putting specific targets puts pressure on the athlete, and you can easily go the wrong direction,” he said. 12 of that year, Kipchoge clocked 1:59:40 in the Austrian capital in a non-record-eligible event (rather than a traditional race) to become the first person to cover 26.2 miles on foot in less than two hours. “rain or shine,” Sang said - reminded the coach of the runner’s sunny disposition in the summer of 2019. The way Kipchoge carried himself in the months leading into Berlin - running at 6 a.m. When Sang analyzes his athletes, he looks beyond times. Taking the pain training, and it pays off.” “Those are small things you reflect and say, it’s worth sacrificing sometimes. “Sometimes he had to run in the rain,” said Sang, the 1992 Olympic 3000m steeplechase silver medalist. Sang thought about the abnormally wet season in southwestern Kenya, where Kipchoge logs his daily miles more than a mile above sea level. Sometimes, if you don’t acknowledge that, then it looks like you’re only looking at the performance. “Besides that, I think it was just to appreciate the effort that he put in in training. “I mentioned to him that probably it was slightly a little bit too fast in the beginning, in the first half,” Sang said of Kipchoge going out in 59 minutes, 51 seconds for the first 13.1 miles (a sub-two-hour pace he did not maintain in the final miles). Later, they met again and reflected together on the 2:01:09 performance, chopping 30 seconds off his world record in 2018 in the German capital. “I told him, ‘I’m proud of you and what you have achieved today.'” “It felt good,” Sang said by phone from his native Kenya on Thursday. Kipchoge continued on his congratulatory tour. They shook hands, Kipchoge appeared to stop his watch and Sang wiped his pupil’s sweaty face off with a towel. When Eliud Kipchoge broke the marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, he began his celebration near the finish line by doing the same thing he did upon breaking the record in Berlin four years earlier.
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