I’ve tried to live with the right values, discipline, focus, and concentration. I’ve treated running as a profession and as a career. There is no comfort zone as far as life is concerned. “I have prepared for Boston for five months, and my seconds, my minutes, my hours, my days, my weeks, my months I have put into it is what will push me to the finish line,” he said in a pre-race press conference. He respects his competition and the challenging course, but his dedication, preparation, and perspective seem to be on another level. But this is his first time running the Boston Marathon, which is known for its challenging hills, a deep field of challengers (without pacemakers), and unpredictable racing tactics. He’s won 15 of the 17 marathons he’s raced since his debut in 2013, including the last two Olympics. He’s 38 but he’s still the best marathoner in the world. He’s also the only person ever to break the two-hour mark for 26.2 miles, famously running 1:59:40 in an exhibition race in Vienna, in 2019. He’s broken the world record for the marathon twice since 2018, lowering it to the current mark of 2:01:09 last fall in Berlin. It exposes every flaw in a public way, and is tough when the results don’t seem to match up with how hard you’re working.This article is part of Outside Run’s complete 2023 Boston Marathon race coverage.Įliud Kipchoge is the overwhelming favorite to win the Boston Marathon on Monday morning. Getting back into form after a long period of time off is already humbling trying to do that while also preparing to race a pro marathon feels like standing on stage at graduation in my underwear. “Lost contact with the second pack after about 5 miles and ran 1–2 mins slower than I was going for. “Went into the US Half champs hoping to get one last hard effort in before Nagoya, and it was pretty damn humbling,” she wrote. Although the race was an improvement, she wrote on Instagram that she wasn’t happy. At the half marathon championships, with the pulled glute, she finished eighth in 1:13:08. Seidel raced a half marathon in November in Boston, finishing 16th in 1:16:22. I just want it to be this one linear, upward trajectory. People expect me to be fully cured, fully healed, be an advocate for this stuff. “But it’s a huge sense of shame and a sense that I’ve just let a ton of people down. “I’m working as hard as I can to come out the other side,” she said at the time. Molly Seidel: Coming Back From Health Challenges.
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