Far from being smug about his incredible win at the weekend, marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge says he believes his time will be broken.
The 33-year-old took more than a minute off the previous record at the Berlin marathon Why embracing boring makes you a stronger runner.
As humble as ever, in an interview with BBC Sport, Kipchoge said: “Sunday was a great race, and I shaved 1 minute and 18 seconds (off the previous record) that’s a good improvement, which shows people that if you work hard you can achieve more.
“I can say that I’m happy with the performance. What I achieved on Sunday will be broken in the future. That’s what I always say, humans are like that. I expect a lot of youth, over one billion in the whole world, will in future run the marathon and break my time.
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The Kenyan set a new world record of 2:01:39 at the Berlin marathon &ndash Nike, “I don’t believe in limits. When I train, I try to listen to my body and challenge it to go beyond barriers when the moment is right.”
In the face of the sub-2 barrier that still exists, he said: “It is no rocket science to break this barrier. You simply have to believe in it, you need a great team that believes in it and in you, you need the perfect shoes and you need to be stronger than any runner before. Then everything is possible.”
