Mumbai: Mumbai has been a happy hunting ground for 38-year-old marathoner John Kelai. The former two-time Mumbai Marathon champion (he won in 2007 and 2008) has run the USD 3,60,000 prize-money race four times and hopes to better his timing of 2:11.05sec this Sunday.

Kenya’s John Kelai (second from left) with some of the other elite athletes during a press conference yesterday. Pic/Shadab Khan