The marathon world document holder and the one man to run beneath 2:01, Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum, has unveiled his coaching aims for the upcoming NN Rotterdam Marathon on April 14.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta Dello Sport, Kiptum mentioned his objectives and coaching routine for Rotterdam. “I wish to proceed to develop and break the (two-hour) barrier,” mentioned Kiptum on the elusive time. “I need to be part of the wealthy historical past of the marathon and if the preparation goes in the correct course and the climate circumstances permit it, I’ll go for it.”
Kiptum additionally shared his aspirations to compete for Kenya on the Paris 2024 Olympics, the place, being the world document holder, he’ll undoubtedly enter as one of many favourites. The 24-year-old additionally talked about the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo as one other noteworthy occasion on his calendar. The Paris Olympic marathon course presents a singular problem with over 400 metres of elevation achieve, making it a lot hillier than Rotterdam, London, Chicago, or Valencia.
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Rotterdam will mark the fourth marathon of Kiptum’s profession. He burst onto the scene with the quickest marathon debut in historical past on the 2022 Valencia Marathon, clocking the third-fastest time in historical past (on the time) of two:01:53. Inside a 12 months, he lowered his time by nearly a minute and a half and claimed victory in two Abbott World Marathon Majors: London and Chicago—the place he lowered the world document to 2:00:35.
In the identical interview, Kiptum revealed that he should push himself additional in coaching to attain his purpose of a sub-two marathon. Presently coaching at a high-altitude camp in Chepkorio, Kenya, he reportedly covers a distance of 270 kilometres per week. The world document holder talked about that he sees his wife and youngsters sporadically however carefully determined to place 100% focus into his coaching.
For Kiptum to interrupt the two-hour barrier, he would wish to run a full second quicker per kilometre than he did when he received in Chicago. Averaging two minutes and 52 seconds per kilometre over 42.2K to set the world document, he would wish to common two minutes and 51 seconds to interrupt the barrier.
