{"id":817,"date":"2011-10-28T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:18:32","slug":"flash-quotes-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/news\/flash-quotes-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Quotes – Frankfurt Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wilson Kipsang<\/p><\/div>\n

Wilson Kipsang, Course Record Holder and Defending Champion<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy and appreciate very much being able to return to the BMW Frankfurt Marathon. The biggest change since last year is that I\u2019ve been able to run in higher profile races and, of course, the prize money also transformed my personal life. I\u2019ve prepared more intensively than last year, did more running overall and more quality in the speedwork.<\/p>\n

Returning doesn\u2019t make feel under a lot of pressure but being the champion with this great field I have to compete very well on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The world record is really very possible in this race. It\u2019s a good course, the field is strong and the spectators are fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agnes Kiprop, Frankfurt Marathon Winner 2009<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be back in Frankfurt for the third time. My aim is to improve my time [as last year]. My training has been different compared to last year. It took more out of me. I trained more. I worked on my speed but also extended my long run to 40 km sometimes. I want to go through halfway on Sunday in 71:30 or 71:40.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabrina Mockenhaupt, Frankfurt Marathon Winner 2008<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed more preparation this year. There\u2019s always a special place in my heart for Frankfurt, it\u2019s not far from home for me. I\u2019m here to run a good time, where I finish is of secondary importance on this occasion. My target is 2:25. I\u2019d like to run around 72:30 for the first half. I\u2019ve increased both my training volume and the intensity. This is the longest preparation I\u2019ve ever done for a marathon and I hope that it pays off on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jan Fitschen, European 10,000 m Champion 2006<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to eradicate what happened in D\u00fcsseldorf from my mind as quickly as possible. I want to show on Sunday that I can do better and run faster and just draw a line under what happened. It\u2019s true that my preparation wasn\u2019t ideal. I\u2019d like to go out in 67:30 [for the first half]. I\u2019d love to run the Olympic qualifying time [2:12] and I\u2019m not really at that point yet. However, I\u2019d like to make this another step in that direction and run well in the New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

G\u00fcnther Weidlinger, Austrian Record Holder<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining went very well in the last few months but I\u2019m not going to consider attacking [my] national record since it\u2019s more important to get inside the Olympic qualifying time of 2:14. I\u2019d like to go through halfway in 66:30 and then see what happens. I don\u2019t understand why national federations make the qualifying standards harder. The IOC or the IAAF work out the qualifying standards and the national federations then make them harder without giving this matter proper consideration. It doesn\u2019t make sense and does the sport no favours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Pollm\u00e4cher, Germany\u2019s best hope for Olympic Qualification<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could hardly imagine a more impressive finish [than here]. I still have something to settle with this course because the man with the hammer hit me at 38 km in 2008 and I couldn\u2019t enjoy the run-in to the finish. I\u2019ve prepared very well and in great detail. I\u2019ve created a good environment for myself and believe I can be optimistic when I\u2019m on the start line on Sunday. Elite sport is a risky business, you\u2019re dancing on a knife edge. You can take risks and end up flat on your face. I don\u2019t think much of just taking the easy option in races \u2013 I\u2019d rather go all out here and I\u2019m going to risk that on Sunday. Preparation for this has taken a whole year and the sessions have gone better than the last few races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wilson Kipsang, Course Record Holder and Defending Champion \u201cI am very happy and appreciate very much being able to return to the BMW Frankfurt Marathon. The biggest change since last year is that I\u2019ve been able to run in higher profile races and, of course, the prize money also transformed my personal life. I\u2019ve prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,1,46],"tags":[89,90,270,293,383,923],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-frankfurt","category-news","category-pre-event","tag-89","tag-90","tag-course-record","tag-defending-champion","tag-frankfurt-marathon","tag-wilson-kipsang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}