Eliud Kipchoge challenge the human limits

Eliud KipchogeKenyan

• 35 years, 1m67, 52 Kg
• Marathon runner, 230km week
• Married, 3 children
• Olympic gold and world recordman on the marathon in 2h1m39s

Goal: Run the marathon in 1h59m in Vienna in the next few days

Mental Attitude (mindset)

• Training, passion and self-discipline
• He writes down everything he does in notebooks.
• He writes down his feelings to remember them
• Read Aristotle, Confucius and Paul Coelho
• He runs with his mind relaxed
• “Respect a law, that of never telling you lies”
• “Only the disciplined are free, the others are slaves to moods and passions.”
• “When I train, I try to feel my body and give more and more. I don’t believe in limits.
• “You have to have a great conviction and a team that believes in you and supports you. Shoes are also important. And then you have to be stronger than any other runner in the past. Everything is possible”.
• “Marathon is life. If you want to be happy you have to enjoy life and I enjoy running the marathon. That’s why I smile.

He leads a spartan life:

• Always gets up at 5 a.m. in Kaptagat (Kenya)
• The weekend returns to the family
• He cleans his room and bathroom
• He washes his knits and socks in a bowl that he then spreads like the others
• In the afternoon, he drinks a cup of tea and eats a slice of bread.

(Source: Emanuela Audisio, Repubblica e correre.it)