The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Chris Musumba
13 April 2011
Nairobi — When Florence Kiplagat and Moses Mosop make their marathon debut in Boston next Monday, they will not be the first husband-and-wife pair to compete in the same 42km race.But they will be the highest rated couple to have lined up for the annual race.
Buoyant after her victory at the World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning, China, last year, Kiplagat is ready to test the waters in the full marathon along the Boston streets. Her husband Mosop won silver at the 2007 World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, and has also decided to launch a career in the marathon.
Mosop won the Milan half marathon last year and has shaken off a knee injury he encountered in a fall while training.
Although Kiplagat has competed in only two 21km road races in her short career, the 2009 World Cross Country Championships gold medallist is ready to take her game a notch higher.
“I want to see how my body will react to it. I will run in Boston and have the target of finishing the race and then see where that will leave me in the rankings,” she said.
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