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shuize
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by shuize » Sat Oct 12, 2019 2:16 pm
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.
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Anaxagoras
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by Anaxagoras » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:00 pm
That's pretty impressive, but it must be noted:
a non-record-eligible time trial event
I think he ran alone behind a pace car under ideal conditions.
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by Rob Lister » 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.
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by ed » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:29 pm
Racist
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by ed » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:45 pm
hE NEVER WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED IT IF IT WAS WHITE RUNNER.
If there were white runners I mean.
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by ed » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:49 pm
Dunno. You hit on my problem precisely.
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by shemp » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:14 pm
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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by Rob Lister » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:39 pm
shemp wrote: ↑ Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:14 pm
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.
13.7615 miles per hour for 2 hours. fuck.
Pick up at 2:40
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by Anaxagoras » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:21 pm
I get 4.568 minutes per mile.
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by Rob Lister » Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:39 am
Oh, well that's totally doable.
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by shemp » Sun Oct 13, 2019 1:51 am
Yeah, I'm gonna do it tomorrow!
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by shuize » Sun Oct 13, 2019 1:19 pm
ed wrote: ↑ Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:45 pm
hE NEVER WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED IT IF IT WAS WHITE RUNNER.
If there were white runners I mean.
If it makes you feel better, he had some white guys helping pace him.
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by Anaxagoras » Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:14 am
Also noteworthy: A new world record for women (and this one counts):
Kenya's Brigid Kosgei destroys women's world record at Chicago Marathon
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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by Rob Lister » Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:21 am
Really, they only dislike men with short attitudes or thin wallets.
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by Anaxagoras » Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:01 pm
I see that Peter Dinklage is on the list. :D
There's an exception for movie stars and rich guys of course.