Eliud Kipchoge runs the world’s first sub-2 hour marathon

[Your Mom 4940]

It won’t count as a world record because it wasn’t run in an actual open race, and because he had assistance not allowed in races. It was a similar experiment to the one he attempted for Nike two years ago, in which he missed the mark by 26 seconds.

In the Nike experiment they did it on a race car track, isolated but with pacers in optimal weather.  The guy who set up this one organized it more similarly to a real race, on the city streets of Vienna with cheering crowds.  

He had a team of 40 pacers rotating in and out and running in a very specific formation around him for aerodynamics.  He also had a car behind him that emitted a green laser onto the street in front of him at the exact pace he needed to run.  

Made it with 19 seconds to spare. Not a race win, not a world record, but definitely a feat that many people thought could never be done.  It’s right up there with Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile, previously thought impossible, and it will be done in an actual race pretty soon and eventually become a fairly regular occurrence.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sports/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-record.html

TL;DR... Humans are pretty badass  

 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Your Mom

[Braff Zacklin 13675]

Saw some of this live on YouTube while trying to fall asleep last night.

The car projecting the green alignment lasers was in front of him, btw.

[Knoxtnhorn 6251]

He only beat my marathon time by 5 hours.  Pussy.

[clapclapclap 9000]

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He had a team of 40 pacers rotating in and out and running in a very specific formation around him for aerodynamics. 

So bogus.

[Your Mom 4940]

34 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

So bogus.

It wasn’t meant to replicate race conditions in any way. Not meant to be an official record either.   They’re just trying to see if it’s humanly possible and now they know it is.  The four minute mile was also broken with pacers running in front of Bannister most of the way.  It’s something to build on.  

[futureman 22635]

1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

So bogus.

name does not check out. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Yes. It’s humanly possible if you cheat 

[Beau Vine 55613]

My marathon PR is one hour and 128 minutes.  

[El Diablo 4232]

Was the amount of blood doping needed also documented? 

[Your Mom 4940]

36 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Yes. It’s humanly possible if you cheat 

Well it wasn’t known to be humanly possible up until yesterday.  How do you cheat when there’s not even a competition of any sort?  It was an experiment. There were no rules.  Nobody is claiming it as any type of win or record. Just a successful experiment that’s pretty impressive and has never been done before. 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Your Mom

[Your Mom 4940]

4 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

Was the amount of blood doping needed also documented? 

Come on now, blood doping is so 10 years ago.  These days it’s all about ingested drugs, not too different than the MLB and the NFL.  
 

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

36 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Well it wasn’t known to be humanly possible up until yesterday.  How do you cheat when there’s not even a competition of any sort?  It was an experiment. There were no rules.  Nobody is claiming it as any type of win or record. Just a successful experiment that’s pretty impressive and has never been done before. 

You literally listed two ways in which he used unnatural means to break the record. So it’s still not humanly possible without assistance 

[Your Mom 4940]

Nobody is claiming he broke any record. He propelled himself on foot for 26.2 miles at a 4:34 pace... yes, with some help. Many people have tried to do the same thing for over 100 years. They’ve tried it while doping, they’ve  tried it with professional pacers, they’ve tried it with pace vehicles, they’ve tried it on closed courses, theyve tried it with big tailwinds, they've tried it with all types of assistance not allowed in actual races.  They all failed, until yesterday. Nobody is saying counts as anything other than a pretty impressive run. 
 

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

37 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Nobody is claiming he broke any record. He propelled himself on foot for 26.2 miles at a 4:34 pace... yes, with some help. Many people have tried to do the same thing for over 100 years. They’ve tried it while doping, they’ve  tried it with professional pacers, they’ve tried it with pace vehicles, they’ve tried it on closed courses, theyve tried it with big tailwinds, they've tried it with all types of assistance not allowed in actual races.  They all failed, until yesterday. Nobody is saying counts as anything other than a pretty impressive run. 
 

 

Okay. Didn’t know that others have tried with aides before and failed. Good for him then. 

 

[Steel Shank 9501]

What's the record for laying pipe?

[Hank Scorpio 17886]

It's fun to say Eliud Kipchoge in a Kenyan accent. But just in your head. Not out loud. Never out loud. 

[Pato del Muerto 53165]

For all we know Pheidippides ran it in 1:44. He did die after he was done.

You can’t really say this is the first sub 2 hour marathon. It’s the first recorded one. 

Edited October 13, 2019 by Pato del Muerto

[Surly Bevo 25611]

Yea cool. Now let’s see him do it with Big 12 refs calling the race.

[Grade of D as in David 13254]

9 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

What's the record for laying pipe?

[El Diablo 4232]

Aided only by gravity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos

[BabaYaga 15486]

On 10/12/2019 at 9:52 PM, Steel Shank said:

What's the record for laying pipe?

Well, for me, I like to follow the Tootsie Roll Owl method

one....two...three....uhhgggggg.

So Three....

[LonghornJones 838]

On 10/12/2019 at 8:58 AM, Your Mom said:

TL;DR... Humans are pretty badass  

That's what your mom said.

[GabrielsHorn 2233]

Slightly different, but the women's record for the marathon was broken this weekend as well (and this time officially):

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769917804/kenyan-brigid-kosgei-smashes-womens-world-record-at-chicago-marathon

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Kenya's Brigid Kosgei won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday with a time of 2 hours 14 minutes 4 seconds, breaking the previous world record by 81 seconds.

At 25, the Kenyan defended her title after winning last year's event, and put almost 7 minutes between herself and her competition. Both from Ethopia, Ababel Yeshaneh finished second with a time of 2:20:51 and Gelete Burka came in third at 2:20:55.

The previous world record time of 2:15:25 was set by Britain's Paula Radcliffe in 2003 at the London Marathon.

Pretty crazy that it happened on the same weekend!

[Nice Guy Eddie 13626]

Athletic records don’t seem to be as big of a deal anymore. There are still questionable ones hanging around from before drug testing.  Othes like in swimming seem to get broken every few months.  Within a generation, you might see Michael Phelps times not even getting you on the Olympic team much less winning 75 gold medals.

a 2 hour marathon is incredible but not much more than a 2 hour 2 minute marathon. They’re both sprinting for ~2 hours which is amazing.

[tokamak 6637]

I just did some math.

A 1:59:40 marathon equates to a 6.22 second 40-yard dash. 1,153 times in a row.

[crash_davis 23411]

On 10/15/2019 at 7:50 AM, tokamak said:

I just did some math.

A 1:59:40 marathon equates to a 6.22 second 40-yard dash. 1,153 times in a row.

so sloneal has a chance?