{"id":380227,"date":"2011-04-14T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/14\/kenya-husband-and-wife-pair-set-for-marathon-debut\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T01:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T01:32:20","slug":"kenya-husband-and-wife-pair-set-for-marathon-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/14\/kenya-husband-and-wife-pair-set-for-marathon-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Husband-And-Wife Pair Set for Marathon Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"39.363282631765\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>Chris Musumba<\/p>\n<p>13 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Mosop won the Milan half marathon last year and has shaken off a knee injury he encountered in a fall while training.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104140038.html\" title=\"Kenya: Husband-And-Wife Pair Set for Marathon Debut\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Husband-And-Wife Pair Set for Marathon Debut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Chris Musumba 13 April 2011 Nairobi \u2014 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Husband-And-Wife Pair Set for Marathon Debut - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/14\/kenya-husband-and-wife-pair-set-for-marathon-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Husband-And-Wife Pair Set for Marathon Debut - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Chris Musumba 13 April 2011 Nairobi \u2014 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. 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