{"id":367344,"date":"2024-02-13T02:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=367344"},"modified":"2024-02-13T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:03:12","slug":"what-moneghetti-will-miss-most-about-late-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=367344","title":{"rendered":"What Moneghetti will miss most about late superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelvin Kiptum's death<\/a>\ufeff snatched away a man who revolutionised marathon running<\/a>, taking what the athletics<\/a> world considered impossible and making it possible.<\/p>\n

That\ufeff's the view of Australian marathon legend Steve Moneghetti<\/a>, who's hailed the young Kenyan's barnstorming approach to race day and astonishing training methods after he died at the age of only 24, losing his life in a car crash.<\/p>\n

"That's the thing that we were all so amazed about; that he was revolutionising marathon running because he was treating it like a track race, the way he was running, and the way he could accelerate and just run so fast," Moneghetti told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

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"The back end, the last 10 [kilometres] in a marathon, running under 28 minutes \u2014 phenomenal running."<\/p>\n

On his way to shattering Kenyan icon Eliud Kipchoge's marathon world record in last year's Chicago Marathon<\/a>, Kiptum cranked up the pace to mind-boggling levels late in the race. His quickest five-kilometre split was 13:51, between 30 and 35 kilometres, and he tore through the 10-kilometre split from 30-40 in just 27:52.<\/p>\n

\"Kelvin<\/p>\n

When he breasted the tape, he stopped the clock at 2:00:35 to chop 34 seconds off Kipchoge's mark, set in\ufeff the 2022 Berlin Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kiptum again stunned the athletics world when speaking to media after the Chicago Marathon, saying he had not felt pain in any of his three marathons.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"He was reinventing what we thought was possible in a marathon and how to run an event. It was so exciting to watch. When you've got that sort of attitude you never know where it's going to stop," Moneghetti said.<\/p>\n

"I think we all put barriers up, but when you hear those comments [about Kiptum not feeling pain] and have that sort of confidence, then we were all really looking forward to seeing what he could do."<\/p>\n

Kiptum's coach, Rwanda's Gervais Hakizimana, who also died in the car accident, spilled on his student's training in an interview with Agence France-Presse. During the build-up to last year's London Marathon, he had regularly banked weeks between 250 and 280 kilometres, and had even notched three weeks in excess of 300 kilometres. And a typical week ahead of the London race had included four "hard" runs.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

To put Kiptum's training into context, the majority of the world's elite marathon runners complete between 180 and 230 kilometres\ufeff a week, including two or three "hard" runs.<\/p>\n

"He's in his best years but at one point I'm afraid he'll get injured," Kiptum's coach said last year.<\/p>\n

"At this rate he risks breaking. I suggested he lower the pace but he doesn't want to. He talks to me about the world record people all the time. I told him that in five years he would be done, that he must calm down to last in athletics."<\/p>\n

Kiptum's training base was the village of Chepkorio in Kenya's west, situated 2500 metres above sea level.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI think we were all probably amazed about the amount of training he was doing [and were thinking], 'Could his body sustain that? What was he going to be doing next?'," Moneghetti said.<\/p>\n

\"Kelvin<\/p>\n

"The future of training for marathons, as well \u2014 he was reinventing that and making what we thought was impossible possible.<\/p>\n

"So he was a trailblazer in that regard and now we're not going to get the opportunity to see what that sort of training could develop into on race day."<\/p>\n

Australian Olympic marathon runner Liam Adams was astounded by Kiptum's training.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"I think I read he was doing around 290-kilometre weeks and some really fast long runs and some short, sharp stuff," Adams told Wide World of Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"I don't think it was for the faint-hearted. He was doing an absolutely crazy training block and training method, which not many people in the world would have been able to do."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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