Eliud Kipchoge is running the 127th Boston Marathon on Monday 17th April and will be attempting to win his fifth World Marathon Major and set a new course record—breaking the current mark of 2hr 3min 2sec set by Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai in 2011.
Kipchoge set the overall world marathon record last year in Berlin, where he ran 2hr 1min 9sec. He can’t break that official record in Boston, which is not a world record-eligible course because it is a point-to-point race. Records can only be set on courses where the start is near to the finish.
