Kelvin Kiptum banking on debutant Edward Cheserek to impress in New York City Marathon

ATHLETICS Kelvin Kiptum banking on debutant Edward Cheserek to impress in New York City Marathon

Abigael Wafula 20:35 - 03.11.2023

Edward Cheserek has been training with Kelvin Kiptum and the world record holder is banking on him to do well at the New York City Marathon.

Edward Cheserek has been spending most of his time training with the newly-crowned marathon world record holder ahead of his full marathon debut at the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

Cheserek disclosed that Kiptum is banking on him to do well since he has the potential to do well. He explained that training with Kiptum and other marathoners was quite easy for him since they kept pushing and motivating him to do better.

“Marathon training was fun when I was training with other marathoners but doing it all alone was not easy.

I have trained with a lot of marathoners from Kenya including Kelvin Kiptum and we worked together in June and July until he went for the Chicago Marathon.

We did the workouts and easy runs together and he believes I am capable of doing well over the marathon.

When we used to train together he used to tell me, ‘I think you can do well in the marathon so you hang in there and everything will go well,” Cheserek said.

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He is just fresh from winning the Copenhagen Half Marathon which is motivation enough ahead of his debut in the streets of New York against a strong field.

Cheserek explained that he worked hard for the win and was ready for anything to happen during the race.

“I chose to train in Kenya because there was a lot of people to run with and that gave me motivation to keep going,” the US-based athlete added.

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