Kipchoge's Sub-Two-Hour Marathon: How Legitimate Is It?

(theatlantic.com)

2 points | by slowhand09 1626 days ago

1 comments

  • thinkcontext 1626 days ago
    I think 2hrs will be broken in competition but I don't think it will be by Kipchoge and I think it will take more than 10 years to do so. He is pretty far ahead of current competitors, having lowered the previous mark by more than a minute. However, that has happened before and the mark has fallen pretty consistently every few years over the past few decades.

    Only a relatively small slice of humanity ever even attempt to run a marathon but more and more do so each year. An accomplishment like Kipchoge's is bound to encourage even more people to make the attempt. There is probably someone out there that can do it in a race, they have probably been born but are not yet competing.