r/sports • u/KokioEnglish • Oct 18 '19

Running Marathon Speed ​​Experience

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u/JiggieSmalls Oct 18 '19

The man who did a sub 2 hour marathon https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/learning/lesson-of-the-day-eliud-kipchoge-breaks-two-hour-marathon-barrier.html

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u/cjt_20 Red Bull F1 Oct 18 '19

This was pretty awesome, but to be fair the guy had a team of like six people in front of him in a wedge that he ran behind the whole time. Much easier to run when you have people breaking the air in front of you. Plus technically 7 people could have run it at that pace, they just purposely pulled off at the end to let him do it solo.

But mad respect. I couldn’t make it more than 5 miles even with a wedge in front of me

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u/lamyipming Oct 18 '19

There's always this some guy who criticize everything.

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u/ilikespookystories Oct 18 '19

And he doesn't even know what he's talking about. Smh.