Wasn't Letsrun trying to upstage Eliud Kipchoge's sub2 marathon in Vienna?
https://athleticsillustrated.com/eliud-kipchoge-may-not-become-the-first-sub-2-hour-marathon-runner/
Looks like another entity is trying to upstage Kipchoge too!
Wasn't Letsrun trying to upstage Eliud Kipchoge's sub2 marathon in Vienna?
https://athleticsillustrated.com/eliud-kipchoge-may-not-become-the-first-sub-2-hour-marathon-runner/
Looks like another entity is trying to upstage Kipchoge too!
Tongue firmly in cheek.
He'll come out of retire and immediately back. Running a -5% grade for 26 miles will probably mess up his knees, hips and lower back beyond belief.
Also I really never understood these plans to try get a sub 2 on stupid downhill courses. Honestly it just seems disrespectful to Kipchoge and his attempts, and just seems like a way to grab attention. I understand that Breaking2 and this Ineos 1:59 thing ultimately is a matter of marketing and also "grabbing attention," but it really seems like an a**hole move and a big middle finger to the whole running community to just swoop in and grab a sub 2 on a stupidly net downhill course.
You are taking the whole thing too seriously.
Again: tongue firmly in cheek.
y tho wrote:
He'll come out of retire and immediately back. Running a -5% grade for 26 miles will probably mess up his knees, hips and lower back beyond belief.
Don't get out much do you?
Too many races with way more vert (ascent and descent) to even begin to list, but here are 3 examples -
Pike's Peak Marathon: 7800' ascent to summit, return. Average 12% grade.
Hardrock: 33,000+ ascent AND 33k descent.
UTMB: 33,000+ ascent AND 33k descent.
Any number of people, including me, have done those races without "messing up their knees, hips and lower back beyond belief".
y tho wrote:
He'll come out of retire and immediately back. Running a -5% grade for 26 miles will probably mess up his knees, hips and lower back beyond belief.
Also I really never understood these plans to try get a sub 2 on stupid downhill courses. Honestly it just seems disrespectful to Kipchoge and his attempts, and just seems like a way to grab attention. I understand that Breaking2 and this Ineos 1:59 thing ultimately is a matter of marketing and also "grabbing attention," but it really seems like an a**hole move and a big middle finger to the whole running community to just swoop in and grab a sub 2 on a stupidly net downhill course.
The world isn't obligated to bow down before Kipchoge.
y tho wrote:
it really seems like an a**hole move and a big middle finger to the whole running community to just swoop in and grab a sub 2 on a stupidly net downhill course.
Kipchoge had a wind break all the way, which is almost the same thing.
Just Another Run of the Mill ex-D1 er wrote:
y tho wrote:
He'll come out of retire and immediately back. Running a -5% grade for 26 miles will probably mess up his knees, hips and lower back beyond belief.
Don't get out much do you?
Too many races with way more vert (ascent and descent) to even begin to list, but here are 3 examples -
Pike's Peak Marathon: 7800' ascent to summit, return. Average 12% grade.
Hardrock: 33,000+ ascent AND 33k descent.
UTMB: 33,000+ ascent AND 33k descent.
Any number of people, including me, have done those races without "messing up their knees, hips and lower back beyond belief".
At 4:34 per mile?
It was my idea first:
dunes runner wrote:
Kipchoge had a wind break all the way, which is almost the same thing.
I've had races where I broke wind all the way.
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