Eliud Kipchoge runs 1:59 marathon, first to break 2 hours
Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 40 seconds, becoming the first person to break two hours for 26.2 miles in a special event in Vienna on Saturday morning.
Rob Lister wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:34 pm
I do not see how that is possible. That's close to a 4-minute mile for 26 straight miles.
It's 4:34.6 per mile. Obviously, he was capable of this pace.
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So Kenyans own both the men's and women's world records, if I'm not mistaken.
Kenya's Brigid Kosgei beat the women's marathon world record by more than a minute Sunday in winning the Chicago Marathon.
Her unofficial time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 4 seconds beat Paula Radcliffe's record, set at the 2003 London Marathon, by 81 seconds.
The 25-year-old smoked the competition. It was almost 7 minutes before the second-place runner, Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh, followed Kosgei across the finish line.
Let's just call it 134 minutes, or about 5 minutes, 7 seconds per mile. Put another way, that's an 11.73 mph pace.
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