Eliud Kipchoge tried to break two hours in his last marathon. He’ll try to lower the world record at his next one.
The Kenyan Olympic champion entered the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 24, eyeing the fastest record-eligible course in the world.
Berlin, with its pancake-flat roads, was the site of the last six times the men’s 26.2-mile world record was lowered in the last 14 years, coming down from 2:05:38 to 2:02:57.
Kipchoge, 32, won his last Berlin start in 2015, clocking 2:04:00 with his insoles infamously slipping out the back of his shoes and flopping the last half of the race.