Kipchoge's motto is "No human is limited". Why doesn't he run 1:55 then?

Why doesn't he race more than twice a year?

Given Coronavirus, we may have seen the last of Kipchoge.

Thanks for summarizing the average LRC poster - hopelessly pedantic.

hm. wrote:

I'm not even really being sarcastic.

He is sort of implying he got where he is through hard work alone. He also seems to be implying that anyone can achieve anything if they try hard enough.

I know he's Just A Runner(tm), but it's such a dumb and easily disprovable motto. End of rant.

...or even two seconds.

I'd say the average LRC poster has absolutely nothing to contribute and just sits around waiting for someone else to make a thread for them to take a mindless potshot at...

SUPEPlOR COACH JS wrote:

I'd say the average LRC poster has absolutely nothing to contribute and just sits around waiting for someone else to make a thread for them to take a mindless potshot at...

Every messageboard has more people who respond than people who create threads. That is not unique to LRC.

I was roasting you, specifically, as the uncreative idiot taking a potshot. Doy.

Didn't you watch the breaking2 video? They did mention if they told him to run 1:55, he would have trained for that.

pattylover2001 wrote:

Didn't you watch the breaking2 video? They did mention if they told him to run 1:55, he would have trained for that.

Yes, absolutely he would set about training for the goal they were paying him to train for. I would happily accept a sponsorship to do everything I could to run 2:00. I can't do it, but I'd accept the money and trained hard for them.

I know what you were trying to do. The funny thing is the OP was an "uncreative idiot taking a potshot".

hm. wrote:

I'm not even really being sarcastic.

He is sort of implying he got where he is through hard work alone. He also seems to be implying that anyone can achieve anything if they try hard enough.

I know he's Just A Runner(tm), but it's such a dumb and easily disprovable motto. End of rant.

No he's not. Maybe he will run 1:55. He didn't mean you don't still have to progress.

Ummmmmm, he's not human?

totorious wrote:

I know what you were trying to do. The funny thing is the OP was an "uncreative idiot taking a potshot".

One time, a Jimmy John's delivery driver carrying a sandwich walked straight up to me outside my building. I told him I didn't order a sandwich. He says "I know." and walks off in a completely different direction.

Do you think you might be doing something like that?

You can call it pendantic but I too think it's really annoying throwing out phrases like "no human is limited". Every human is extremely limited in all sorts of ways. Some are way more limited than others. Maybe every single other human on the planet minus Bekele is more limited than Eliud Kipchoge in distance running.

He used to sound wise to me but stuff like this is just annoying. You can see it in someone's eyes—the way the look forward like they are percieving some secret in the universe that you too can be privy to if follow their backwards ideology.

hm. wrote:

I'm not even really being sarcastic.

He is sort of implying he got where he is through hard work alone. He also seems to be implying that anyone can achieve anything if they try hard enough.

I know he's Just A Runner(tm), but it's such a dumb and easily disprovable motto. End of rant.

What Eliud means is NOT that you can achieve anything but offen people set barriers in their mind like 'I can never break 15:00 or whatever'. His no limit means that these barriers only exist in our minds and can never be real. It's just not possible for anyone to limit you, like the speed of light. Now, that's a real limit set by nature. Of course, you have a limit which is determined by talent, determination, luck, whatever. Maybe you can never break 16:00, but you will never find out until you try, because again, this limit doesn't really exist.

Marketing slogans are just that - marketing. Now you're making me be a pedant.

to answer your question, the most likely reason that he doesn't run 1:55 is because he's limited. guess that means he's not human... in this case, that's not a good thing. wonder why none of us limitless humans have yet run a 3 minute marathon though?

Noelleon wrote:

What Eliud means is NOT that you can achieve anything but offen people set barriers in their mind like 'I can never break 15:00 or whatever'. His no limit means that these barriers only exist in our minds and can never be real. It's just not possible for anyone to limit you, like the speed of light. Now, that's a real limit set by nature. Of course, you have a limit which is determined by talent, determination, luck, whatever. Maybe you can never break 16:00, but you will never find out until you try, because again, this limit doesn't really exist.

Your attempt to explain the true meaning behind his motto even falls short of satisfying.

"Eliud means there are no mental limits...well, I mean, technically some people can never do some things, so their mental limits are appropriate. Eliud means some people are holding themselves back. Those people have no limits."

Beautiful

totorious wrote:

Marketing slogans are just that - marketing. Now you're making me be a pedant.

You are absolutely not being made to do anything. You are choosing to remain in the thread and contribute meaningless blather. Have some sense of personal agency.