I am here to win Lagos City Marathon —Kenyan star Kiptanui Too Chobeis

By Adeyinka Akintunde, Lagos on February 6, 2016

Josphat Kiptanui Too Chobei of Kenya believes that he will be the champion of the 2016 Lagos Marathon race holding this morning in the former Nigerian capital. The winner of the 2015 New Taipei City Wanjinshi International Marathon race said ahead of the big race about to be flagged off (scheduled time was 7am but Daily Sports reports that it is yet to start a few minutes past 7): “I am having a long race, and I do my training two times a day, and sometimes three times a day.”

Kiptanui, who arrived Lagos Thursday evening with other elite athletes, spoke during a press conference at the Teslim Balogun Stadium secretariat of the Local Organising Committee (LOC). He disclosed that he changes his trainings at different times to adjust to different weather conditions. He also heaped praises on the organisers, saying: “This marathon is one of the best. The organisers are very good.”

Fridah Lodepa, also a Kenyan, equally said she is prepared for the big race. The winner of the 2014 Aba Half Marathon in South-East Nigeria has a personal best of 2 hours, 40 minutes and 14 seconds, which she got in Kuala Lumpur, in 2009. She disclosed that she has undergone 25 kilometres, 30 metres and 45 kilometres in training.

For the weather, Lodepa said she is used to it. According to her, “Sometimes I run in Asian countries (Asia countries are very hot, sometimes 35 degrees). But the last time I ran here (in Aba, Nigeria), it was not as hot as Asia. Here (Nigeria) is better than Asia; Asia is very hot.”

Another Kenyan star, Philip Kiplagat Biwott, dismissed the chances of a Nigerian emerging among winners of the race. He advised Nigeria to look for a good coach that will train their marathoners if they want to win marathon races like the Kenyans and Ethiopians do.

Biwott, who has a personal best of 2 hours, 10 minutes and 27 seconds in full marathon, suggested that athletes in Nigeria “can find a coach to train them, and everyday they train about 30 to 35 kilometres; in the morning they train 20 kilometres, in the evening they train 10 kilometers.”

Over 20,000 runners registered to participate in the marathon, which was last held over 30 years ago. The 42-kilometre race with a total prize money of N92 million starts at the National Stadium Lagos and finish at the Eko Atlantic City.

•Photo shows Kiptanui Too Chobeis in action.

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 6, 2016


 

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