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the defending champion

How Geoffrey Mutai trains for the Boston Marathon

By Shira Springer

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 13, 2012

For 45 weeks a year, the defending champion devotes himself to grueling training in the high-altitude hills of Kenya.

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