Kipchoge still follows an old-school approach of recording his training workouts, logging every detail in a notebook.
He began the documentation in 2003 and now he has about 18 logs stored at his home that he goes through at the end of each season.
“I document the time, the kilometres, the massage, the exercises, the shoes I’m using, the feeling about those shoes,”
Kipchoge is known to review these details and learn from them for future training cycles.
After each marathon race, Kipchoge takes about three to four weeks break before starting another three to four-week preparatory phase.
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During his preparatory phase training, he alternates different sessions, an hour of strength exercises and step aerobics one day and the following day an hour of easy running.
The two time Olympics champion's day starts at 5:45 a.m where he also takes a nap for one hour with his extra time he reads or converses with his teammates at the camp, with him sleeping by 9 p.m. each night.
In December 2020 a debate emerged on whether the veteran athlete had a nutritionist, after his photo surfaced, showing him eating rice and beans.
Each day Kipchoge takes three litres of water and works with a nutritionist who improves his diet.
The 37 year old athlete gets a massage twice a week from his own physiotherapist, Peter Nduhiu, who he has worked with for 19 years.
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