Eliud Kipchoge Mini-Episode: A Really Brief Chat With the World's Best Marathoner

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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We definitely over-hyped this episode but it's a short (very short) interview with Eliud Kipchoge that was initially meant to be a story that never materialized into writing. The world has known much of Eliud's story as a professional runner because he burst onto the scene at 18 years old. I tried to find out a little bit more about his childhood. He was short on some of his answers but I was able to find a little more to share. So we decided to convert some of the sound bytes into a podcast. I did end up writing a short appreciation of Eliud for SI.com, which you can read here: on.si.com/2OeGY79 This weekend, Eliud will try to run a personal best at the Berlin Marathon. His PB is 2:03:05. The world record is 2:02:57. He's won an Olympic gold medal. He's won Berlin and London multiple times. Regardless of whether or not he gets it, he's had a tremendous career thus far and is the greatest of all-time in my opinion. This episode is brought to you by the Legs Are Feelin Good™. Get out there and get yourself the most popular running mugs! Link here: https://rdbl.co/2MWgkSZ

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0:00.0	What's up sit with it's your host Chris Chavez here for a mini episode of the
0:04.0	serious Mac podcast I said that I'd only release this episode if we hit 500
0:08.5	five-star reviews on iTunes and you guys didn't let us down. It happened and it happened pretty quick.
0:13.8	So let me take a quick moment to explain this short episode.
0:17.1	It's not your typical Citi's MAGPOD because this was actually never intended to be a
0:20.9	podcast. I was granted a chance at chatting with
0:23.5	Elliot Kipchogi briefly because I was gonna work on a story on him about his
0:27.5	upbringing and his childhood. We know of Elliot as this world-class runner and
0:31.5	arguably the greatest marathoner of all time.
0:34.6	He burst on the senior level as a surprising gold medal winner in the 5,000 meters at the 2003
0:41.6	world championships in Paris.
0:43.0	That's right, 18-year-old Ella Capchouge took down Hickam El Karouge and Kennedy
0:47.6	to Bichela.
0:48.6	Pretty wild stuff, those two guys were in their prime.
0:51.2	And ever since then, he's been in the public spotlight.
0:54.6	So I tried asking him a couple questions about what it was like growing up in Kenya and obviously
0:58.9	with this being over the phone it wasn't the best way of chatting about it. To him, I was just a complete stranger on the other end of line.
1:06.0	So I'll help tell some of the story and I'll interject with Elliot SoundBites.
1:10.0	Again, apologies for the quality. This wasn't intended to be a podcast but we love you guys
1:14.8	and figured you'd want to hear from the greatest marathoner of all time so we'll
1:19.5	start off with about a minute or so Berlin Chatter and of course I did try to get him to say
1:24.7	Alex of feeling good but it didn't quite work.
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