Geoffrey Mutai: lumberjack a winner in New York

Geoffrey Mutai, the man who yesterday won the New York Marathon with the best record ever in history in the fabled career, he was six years ago a poor feller of trees in the Rift Valley. At that time he earned his living in fits and starts, running here and there, but an injury forced him to be employed as a lumberjack, mowing logs are then used as telephone poles or wires.

He recovered, began training for 6:30 to 8:30 and then continued to cut trees. Until he could devote himself fully to run. He started a new life. He won his first marathon in Monaco 2008 and started forward. Last April, in Boston, ran 57 seconds under world record time (Gebrselassie, 2h 03:59), but his trademark was canceled because the circuit had a drop of 136.29 meters.

Record.
Yesterday he took revenge. Won New York, the most massive (about 47,000 athletes) and famous marathon in the world and spent a time of 5:06 2 hours between Staten Island and Central Park. Record of the test. Until yesterday, the fastest man in the Big Apple was the Ethiopian Tesfaye Jifar (2hr 07:43).

Yesterday's was the best race in history in New York, with the first three athletes under the previous world record. The winner of last year, the Ethiopian Gebre Gebremarian, ran faster than when he won, but was fourth.

The half marathon in 1h ran 3:17, which presaged a major final record. Geoffrey Mutai broke the leading group, composed of seven athletes in the absence of about ten kilometers from the finish, with a strong and sustained sprint.

The match was resumed four runners: Geoffrey Mutai Kenyans and Emmanuel Mutai (not relatives) and Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia Gebremarian, which ended up going in that order.

A new victory for Kenya, which has won all the major marathons in the year: London, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Rotterdam, Boston ... Daegu and the World. It's what you get.