If not for the wife and kids, we'd call him monastic. He eats well, runs hard, reads those inspirational books you see in airport bookstores (his all-time favorite: the motivational fable Who Moved My Cheese?). He's had the same coach-1992 Olympic steeplechase silver medalist Patrick Sang-for more than 20 years. In conversation, as on the course, he presents himself as the epitome of clean living, clean training, and clean thinking. So far in our talk, Kipchoge has been affable and polite. The work of Monday is done (a long-ish run in the morning and an easy hour in the afternoon), and dinner awaits. ![]() It's the end of a Monday at his training camp in Kaptagat, Kenya, where he arrived this morning after spending most of the weekend with his wife, Grace Sugut, and their three children at home 20 miles away, and where he'll stay until he goes back on Saturday, as he does each week. Not angry, not annoyed, more like I'd just started speaking Esperanto. ![]() When I pose the question, Eliud Kipchoge's brow furrows a bit and stays furrowed. ![]() WHEN YOU ASK the greatest marathoner of all time what he'd be doing with his life if he'd never picked up running, you're going to get a quizzical look. ELIUD KIPCHOGE'S HIGHER PURPOSE Runner's World US | IsHIS BIG DREAMS AND SERIOUS AMBITIONS GO FAR BEYOND RUNNING.
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