Irina Mikitenko of Germany won the women's race in an unofficial time of 2:19:19. "The weather was perfect, the race was perfect and the crowd was perfect." James Kwambai was second in 2:05:36, with fellow Kenyan Charles Kamathi third in 2:07:48. "Everything was perfect," Gebrselassie told German TV after crossing the line on a sunny but cool Berlin morning. Gebrselassie, who opted not to run the marathon at last month's Beijing Olympics because of concerns about the pollution, dropped the last of his challengers with around six kilometres left and his victory was never in doubt. I still get up just before 6am and go to training, which I do until about 9.30. In the first of his journals for the IAAF internet, the quadruple World 10,000m champion gives us a small insight into his daily life. Wearing his distinctive yellow vest and yellow shoes, the 35-year-old was inside the required pace from the start and at the halfway stage already 25 seconds faster than his split time last year. Haile Gebrselassie is a busy man nowadays and not just with his running.
Gebrselassie clocked an official time of two hours three minutes 59 seconds to beat the time of 2:04:26 he set in Berlin 12 months ago, when he took the world record from Paul Tergat. BERLIN - Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie shattered his own world marathon record in Berlin on Sunday when he became the first man to run under two hours four minutes.
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