THE CRAZIEST THING ABOUT ELIUD KIPCHOGE'S WORLD RECORD.

FFF wrote:

What's crazy is that in less than two years we've gone from "holy cow, he just about went sub-2 who cares if it was orchestrated," to "put him in Boston with a tailwind and there's a 1:59 with yesterday's effort."

Seriously, it is ON to get the sub-2, no matter how at this point, because it's going to happen before we know it.

(But Mutai's 2:05 at NYC is the mark.)

If it keeps happening in Berlin it will certainly happen before I know it happened because I am asleep during the Berlin Marathon!

I think the crazy thing is there are only only 2 mind blowing possibilities:

1. He's clean and just ran a mind boggling 2.01. Destroying the worlds best by 5 minutes. Destroying all the other doped record and annihilated them clean.

2. He's dirty and he is blatantly cheating. He has the audacity to be doped to the gills and destroy the world record with no shame and no fear he will be caught. if he fails a drug test this will destroy the sport for years.

i really really really hope its #1.

What is truly crazy is that he did it on pure hate.

I heard it equates to a frontside 270 backside tailslide kickflip to fakie, assuming skateboard-oriented training of course

GOAT FARMER wrote:

Predictor wrote:

Agreed that this is dumb. I would expect him to be one of the top 5k runners of all time.

I bet he could have outkicked Bekele and El G in the 5000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZdOdriRdk

Bekele kicked his arse for the next few years though. On the track Bekele was king, him and El G just got caught watching each other in this race.

The IAAF Scoring Tables give a 2:01:39 marathon 1316 points. The equivalent in points for a track 10k is 26:05.24. 12:31.72 for a track 5k.