NAZ Elite's Wesley Kiptoo Ahead Of The 2024 NYC Marathon: Transitioning To The Marathon + Race Goals
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🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
"The marathon is the longest event. You have to believe in yourself: 'I can do this.' It gets tough at the end. If you don't have that belief, if you don't believe in your training, it's going to get tough. It's just the mindset that, 'I can do this, but I need to be patient enough so that I can finish strong."
Wesley Kiptoo of NAZ Elite sits down with us for a live interview ahead of the 2024 NYC Marathon. He shares about transitioning from college racing to the marathon, his reflections from his debut marathon, how he prepared for the NYC course, and his race plan for tomorrow.
The race kicks off on Sunday, November 3rd with the women’s race starting at 8:35am E.T. and the men following at 9:05am E.T. (Don’t forget to set your clock back an hour the night before!) The race will be streamed nationally on ESPN and locally on ABC.
You can read our full NYC Marathon preview here.
CITIUS MAG is proud to partner with HOKA for our coverage of the 2024 NYC Marathon.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready? |
| 0:01.0 | All right, Chris Chavez here at the Cityist Cafe presented by Hoka and I'm here with |
| 0:08.0 | 2021 NCAA Indoor 5K Champion and now NAZ Elite Marathon and Half Marathon star Wesley Kiptu. |
| 0:18.0 | Wesley, welcome to New York. |
| 0:19.0 | How you feeling? I'm feeling great. |
| 0:22.7 | Getting in the excitement of the city, it's alive and buzzing, all the marathon stuff. |
| 0:27.3 | Hoka's got all this activation going. |
| 0:29.9 | What do you think? |
| 0:31.2 | I think this is amazing. |
| 0:32.8 | This is big for Hoka, you know. |
| 0:35.0 | I remember, like, two years ago when I was still in college, like I came |
| 0:39.6 | around here and I couldn't see a lot of stuff like this, but like, man, this is, this is amazing. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah. Yeah. Now you're here as a marathoner. How does that feel? Like the fact that you're now |
| 0:50.1 | like everyone loved you when you were on the track with the gloves racing the 5K. |
| 0:54.9 | And now, you know, you're here to run a full 26.2 miles. |
| 0:58.7 | Like, does the, how do you feel about the distance now? |
| 1:01.5 | This is your distance. |
| 1:02.6 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:03.5 | About the distance, it's a little bit, like, challenging. |
| 1:07.2 | At the same time, it's exciting you know like you want to just like man i'm gonna see how i feel |
| 1:12.6 | you know after like 26.2 miles and actually for me um i think that will be the right |
| 1:19.0 | decent for me because uh over the years has been like doing a lot of long runs those longer runs |
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