Work Commute Track Club wrote:
it’s an unbelievable performance. not normal.
Laughable. I was never mesmerized by Kipchoge. His status was a blatant condemnation of the event. A guy with a resume like that has no path or logic to move upwards in his late 20s and dominate, not unless the new distance is sadly weak.
Kipchoge was always a placeholder, a sucker meal. Once the marathon gained exposure and funds, it was always guaranteed that young talent would be attracted, along with legitimate superstars from the shorter distances, ones who were prodigies. That's all we're seeing now with Kiptum and Hassan.
And it's been obvious for a year that many of the Kipchoge worshippers and conventional wisdom types were totally unprepared and remain in denial. That's why we have a thread practically begging for the record not to be ratified. That's why there were posts here last time insisting Hassan would lose by 2+ minutes. After all, there's a rigid formula for marathon foundation and she didn't follow it. Talent obliterates formulas.
These are endurance races. By definition they lend to screwed up thinking. The sustained pace seems mind boggling until it's exposed as yesterday.

