{"id":211220,"date":"2025-10-25T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-from-kenyan-hills-to-the-streets-of-new-york-why-marathon-legend-eliud-kipchoge-keeps-chasing-history\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:25:50","slug":"kenya-from-kenyan-hills-to-the-streets-of-new-york-why-marathon-legend-eliud-kipchoge-keeps-chasing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-from-kenyan-hills-to-the-streets-of-new-york-why-marathon-legend-eliud-kipchoge-keeps-chasing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: From Kenyan Hills to the Streets of New York &#8211; Why Marathon Legend Eliud Kipchoge Keeps Chasing History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">THE world&#8217;s top runners are renowned for their speed, mental toughness, and willingness to push their bodies beyond what most people would consider comfortable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Eliud Kipchoge, the Kenyan distance runner widely regarded as the greatest marathoner of all time, embodies everything that makes a runner extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">He has secured two Olympic gold medals in the marathon, unofficially broken the two-hour barrier, and consistently pushes his mind and body to their absolute limits. Beyond his running&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240430.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE world&#8217;s top runners are renowned for their speed, mental toughness, and willingness to push their bodies beyond what most people would consider comfortable. Eliud Kipchoge, the Kenyan distance runner widely regarded as the greatest marathoner of all time, embodies everything that makes a runner extraordinary. He has secured two Olympic gold medals in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":211221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,36826,24462,20245,7099,4688,430,4524,10210,22212,5150,257,254,6751,10514],"class_list":["post-211220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chasing","tag-eliud","tag-hills","tag-history","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-kipchoge","tag-legend","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-streets","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}