Choge broke the long-standing 4×1500 metres relay world record with a Kenyan team of runners in September 2009.

Choge was born in 1987 to a family of small-scale farmers at Kipsigak, near Kapsabet in Nandi District of the Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

He competed at the 2003 East African Youth Championships in May in Addis Ababa and won three gold medals, in 800, 1500 and 3000 metres.

[1] On 20 March 2006, he won the men's 5000 metres event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a time of 12 minutes, 56.41 seconds.

[5] He ran the fastest qualifying time in the 3000 m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but failed to repeat his form in the final and finished in eleventh place.

[7] In October 2019, Choge joined the pacemaker team for the Ineos 1:59 Challenge to help fellow Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge run a sub-two hour marathon distance.