Bobbe
2239
Quite an achievement, even under optimal conditions. You have to do it and he did it!! [nt]
No message body
Kipchoge!
For any of you that are runners, or athletic, or sports fans I’m sure you were aware of Kipchoge’s efforts to break the 2 hour marathon barrier in the last few years. From Nike’s Breaking 2 a couple of years ago to this morning’s Ineos 1:59 Challenge it’s...
The times are impossible to comprehend.
I think if you run, or are a runner, the pace that these guys run 26 miles at is mind blowing. Even for those that are age group competitive, Boston Qualifiers for example which is the cream of age groupers, this is still just off the charts pacing.
A milestone (pun intended) run under near laboratory conditions
A lot of money, millions, have been spent to make this possible, even a newly made surface for a part of the street he was running. Certainly a fantastic achievement, no doubt about that!
All that stuff makes it interesting too.
The planning, the logistics, the pace team they assembled, the strategy etc. Without it we wouldn’t be at this point today but I’m certain this will move things on as others now know it is possible physically. Not so long ago it was thought it would never...
Yes. Even with the pacers, the flat and straight course...
...the guys on bikes providing nutrition, the meteorologists and all the other preparation and science that went into it, he still had to run it.
Nowhere near.
Even my mile (or 1500m if you think classic track distance) is materially slower than that. That’s just one effort, all out. These guys put 26 of those back to back.
That’s a fair point of view.
It was an experiment, that wouldn’t have happened without the marketing dollars (from Nike, then Ineos). I think it will lead to open marathon times breaking that barrier, and it already has resulted in Kipchoge running the two fastest official marathon t...
