Sometimes a once-in-a-lifetime moment rolls by and you just can’t ignore it.
Not only by one athlete, but two and three athletes going under the previous world record.
Funny enough, the very first official marathon world record was 2 hours and 55 minutes back in 1908.
The sub-2-hour barrier had first been theorized back in 1991.
Human impatience got the better of us and we tried to force the inevitable quicker.
Both efforts were done under extremely curated conditions including an optimal course, new shoe tech, pacing, drafting, and nutrition.
All the while, the official world record was slowly chipped down to a 2-hour and 35-second time by the late Kelvin Kiptum.
Marathon runners tended to peak in their 30s.
Sebastian Sawe, who in his first marathon last year ran the fastest debut in history.
They came through halfway in 1 hour and 29 seconds, which was a projected finishing time of 2 hours and 58 seconds.
That was just shy of Kiptum’s world record.
An early pace this quick might ring world record alarm bells depending on the course.
Sawe and Kejelcha would actually speed up , dropping Kiplimo in the process.
They’re doing it not even mid-marathon, at the tail end .
Let me lay it down for you.
He managed to muster up a final surge, making these final kilometers the fastest of his entire race.
Yomif Kejelcha held onto a 1:59:41, the second man ever in history to go sub two.
Pick your poison in how you convey the speed of this race.
The game is changing at an accelerated rate .
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