Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
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#23 people beat the previous world record in this race! This is some combination of improved tech and extraordinarily good weather.
London is a fast course. Let’s see what happens in Chicago and Berlin. If it was primarily tech that did it, we should see the record fall again.
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#3Don’t forget Yomif Kejelcha who finished in 1:59:41, a world record up until 11 seconds prior. Amazing.
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#4~~A car going as fast as him would have gotten a speeding ticket in the residential areas of Wales. Crazy.~~
Edit: I was thinking in km/h and mixed it up. Sorry.
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#5Amazing to me that I'll never get my *half* marathon time close to his full marathon time.
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#6Incredible result! (on the day I did my own 5K pb)
This is a nice video of the last 10 mins of the historic marathon race finish
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#7Wow, that’s ~13 mph, basically a full-on sprint for a mere mortal. Absolutely insane.
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#8~~A car going as fast as him would have gotten a speeding ticket in the residential areas of Wales. Crazy.~~ Edit: I was thinking in km/h and mixed it up. Sorry.
Speed limit is 20mph right? He ran 26.1 miles in 2 hours so average speed is 13 mph
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#9That's literally running a 4:30 mile, 26 times in a row. Jesus.
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#10Wait two runners beat it in the same race?
Was there perfect conditions.or something?
Insane you could run 1:59:41 and not win!