Eliud Kipchoge is DNF (Did Not Finish) in the Marathon Olympic in Paris 2024.

“Today was a tough day at the office,” Kipchoge said about failing to finish the race. “You can train for a very long time but one day, it can happen. It’s like boxing. You can go to a training camp for five months and be knocked out in two seconds. But life will continue.”

Since I started my running journey, I like this particular calmness of Monsieur Kipchoge, oui, on est à Paris maintenant. 😘

“It is a difficult time for me,” he admitted after dropping out just after the 30km mark after an hour and about 40 seconds of running, with a discomfort around his waist.

“This is my worst marathon. I have never done a DNF (did not finish). That’s life. Like a boxer, I have been knocked down, I have won, I have come second, eighth, 10th, fifth – now I did not finish. That’s life.”

On whether he would attempt another Olympic race at Los Angeles 2028.

“You will see me in a different way, maybe giving people motivation, but I will not run,” he said.

“I don’t know what next. I need to go back [home], sit down, try to figure my 21 years of running at high level. I need to evolve and feature in other things

So… Even Eliud kipchoge, a gold medalist, walk in a marathon and finally due to the physical pain he chose to DNF. A marathon is not something we do to gain attention in social media, it’s not a play, it’s a serious, extremely cool way to do self-torture.

It’s never easy to start something, but learning from M Kipchoge.. I think it’s really harder to know when to stop. It takes a lot of wisdom to know yourself.

Keep running,

K Sabrina