Office Hours: Patrick Sang on Coaching Eliud Kipchoge, Faith Kipyegon and the Art of Enduring Greatness
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Sang — the coach behind Eliud Kipchoge, Faith Kipyegon and many other Kenyan stars — reflects on humility, intuition, and the unseen architecture of greatness from more than two decades of coaching. In this wide-ranging interview that we recorded from the NN Running Team Pop Up in New York City (15 E 40th Street), Sang discusses his role as a coach, teacher, mentor, and friend to some of the best in the world, the lessons on longevity and how he’s taking great inspiration from Kipchoge’s career to foster in Faith Kipyegon’s future success on the roads.
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Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Patrick Sang
Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Coach Patrick Sang, welcome to New York City. |
| 0:03.0 | Thank you for having me here. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for having me in the NN running team pop-up store here in New York City. |
| 0:10.0 | Right behind us, there's this wall with so many accomplishments from over the years. |
| 0:15.0 | When you look at this, what does it mean to you to be part of so much history with this team? |
| 0:29.6 | Sitting here, seeing all this, takes me a long, long, beautiful memory lane. Yeah. |
| 0:30.6 | It brings memories to mine that are fresh when I look at them, you know, it's like it just happened. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. And it's beautiful. I mean, these are the moments that you want to remember all the time. |
| 0:48.1 | My favorite is the photo from 2018 of Elliot hugging you right after he crossed the finish line and he ran |
| 0:55.9 | 201-39, first time he broke the world record. What do you remember about that hug? |
| 1:03.4 | You know, in Berlin, when you're a coach or somebody closer to an athlete that is leading, |
| 1:11.6 | they bring you to a special place closer to the finish line. |
| 1:15.6 | And as the race comes to an end, they bring you closer |
| 1:20.6 | so that you have a moment to just to receive them |
| 1:25.6 | and celebrate with that athlete. |
| 1:28.3 | So for me, it was like any normal arrangements that I was used to. |
| 1:35.3 | But, you know, if you see that picture, there is something special about it. |
| 1:40.3 | And what is special about it is that I was reflecting just when |
| 1:46.1 | Elliot was coming like this I was reflecting to the time he came to me to ask for a |
| 1:52.7 | training plan and I was like you know so many things were going like overdrive in |
| 1:58.6 | my brain and said if I had made a mistake, I was |
| 2:03.5 | asking myself, if I had made a mistake not to handle this guy in a proper way, would we be |
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