Eliud Kipchoge broke the sub-2 hour barrier in the marathon on a curated course in Vienna, Austria. With 30 top-flight pacers and the use of frickin’ lasers, he ran a 1:59:40, shattering the physical and mental barriers to run 42.195 kilometers in under 2 hours.
That’s… amazing. Much like Roger Bannister posting a 4-minute-mile, once the impossible become possible, others will surely follow in those steps and in those times. But Eliud Kipchoge was the first. Congratulations to him and his fellow pacers who made that feat possible.
To keep things in perspective, my personal record is 3:02:35. Which means I just need to shave off 1:02:56 from that to beat Eliud Kipchoge’s time.
One hour, two minutes, and fifty-six seconds… fifty five if I wanted to just tie him. And while there’s worse things than a tie, it is still *just* a tie.
I’ve got a lot of work to do.
JK, as the kids say. Just kidding. Kudos, Eliud Kipchoge!