If Kosgei is at her best, she will be unstoppable—but in a year of uncertainty due to the, we won’t know the answer until Sunday. She has been logging 110–120 miles a week in training but admitted at the prerace press conference today that the restrictions in Kenya meant she had an interrupted preparation, so she won’t be targeting her own world record.
“Due to the pandemic I cannot say I can do this or this,” she said. “We did not do enough training [but] I want to try my best. We did not have a group like last year to push each other.”If there are weaknesses in her preparation, they will be exposed by Chepngetich and Cheruiyot. The former suffered through scorching desert heat to winlast September in Doha, and the 26-year-old’s best time of 2:17:08 from Dubai last year makes her one to fear in her London debut.
She has been running 100–105 miles a week in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi but said her “training was hindered” by the pandemic. She, like Kosgei, will run in the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% instead of the latest incarnation of super-shoe, the Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next%. “These are the best shoes,” Chepngetich said.
Kosgei played down the effect of such technology. “The shoes could not run [fast times],” she said. “It’s someone, it’s not the shoes. If the body is not there, you cannot run good.” A mother to twins, Kosgei said the hardest part of marathon training is spending time away from them. “I call them through phones so they don’t miss me,” she said. “They are proud of me.”Cheruiyot, meanwhile, is a mother to a six-year-old boy, and the 37-year-old remains one of the most under-appreciated greats of female distance-running.
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