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Watch: 1:59 Challenge with Eliud Kipchoge - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/athletics/49771509

A bit too manufactured for my liking with lots of external help but he still has to rely on his own legs.

In reply to Gone for good:

And cheat shoes, and probably some drugs. 

In reply to ianstevens:

Definitely cheat shoes. 

In reply to Gone for good:

I love the pacing 'laser line'!

In reply to john arran:

Hoping for sub two, manufactured yes but wasn't sub four mile also manufactured.

In reply to Gone for good:

Words cannot express the joy in watching that

In reply to robert-hutton:

Yes it was. A very impressive athletic feat. All athletic records are manufactured to some extent. Just like all mountains are climbed on the shoulders of those who have gone before. 

In reply to john arran:

Puts my 1 hour track challenge last week into perspective! 

In reply to Gone for good:

I look worse after a 25min 5km than he does now!

unbelievable athlete

In reply to Gone for good:

Good for a Saturday parkrun

In reply to Gone for good:

He can’t stop running. Amazing achievement.

Manufactured or not his sheer happiness brought a lump to my throat.

Remarkable.

In reply to robert-hutton:

Who would have thought the laser line was slowing him down!

What an incredible performance by an incredible athlete.

I wonder how long it will take for this record to be joined by a 'within race' sub-2? It surely must now be high on Eliud's target list of achievements to go for while he's at his very best.

In reply to Gone for good:

Unfathomable pace.

In reply to john arran:

Aka, an actual record, this isn’t recognised by the IAAF for several (good; IMO) reasons. Nonetheless an excellent effort pushing the limits of human achievement.

In reply to robert-hutton:

Not to the same extent as chattaway and basher started with banister and were technically 'in race. Probably more comparable to Paula Radcliffe time when she had male pace makers and competitiors.

As a physical and tactical/technical endeavour.... this was awesome

In reply to idiotproof (Buxton MC):

Shame the Olympics are next year we could have had a battle in Berlin. As it’s a close race will there be testing afterward ? 
The pacers are all amazing athletes wonder how much they will get paid? 
 

He is such a likeable and inspiring man 

In reply to idiotproof (Buxton MC):

comparing with Neil Armstrong is going a bit far..

In reply to idiotproof (Buxton MC):  bear in kind Breasher  started at the same time but got himself lapped pretty effectively 

In reply to malk:

But sports personality of the year if not decade

In reply to malk:

Yes I found some of the comparisons a little cringeworthy. It's without doubt a remarkable achievement, but people have been running since we humans first stood upright, whereas no one had stepped foot on anything but Earth before Armstrong and given the potential billions, if not trillions, of combinations of events that could have stopped that at any single moment, it's still astounding that they did what they did. 

In reply to Gone for good:

This means nothing to me 

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Think of it as the first 9d, with beta and practice, and perfect conditions. Still impressive...

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Ooohhh Vienna....

In reply to Gone for good:

Hurrah, and within 30 minutes too, before I got any dislikes! 

In reply to Gone for good:

If nothing else, it proves that the biomechanics of a human being can produce a sub 2:00 marathon. 

Everything is manufactured. Why 26.2 miles? What’s so special about that?Had it been exactly 40km maybe, but when then the idea of a km is pretty arbitrary.

Impressive running, most of us couldn’t even run 100m at that pace. 

In reply to wbo2:

I'd actually forgotten that.... good point

In reply to idiotproof (Buxton MC):

Would it be against any IAAF rule to act as a pacemaker once you'd already been lapped? That could open the way to a pacemaker relay, with each pacemaker taking a few laps off to rest at jogging pace before their next shift. Has this ever been tried?

In reply to john arran:

They used to do it before it was banned in the 1950s I think 

In reply to mrphilipoldham:

Lance gets about doesn't he? 

In reply to Gone for good:

it is not to be compared with the Apollo achievement of landing on the moon, but in athletic terms it is awesome. Nor is it race conditions, but hugely interesting to see what can be achieved if everything (bar, one hopes, doping) is dedicated to a fast time. 

Park runners: he just did almost 8.5 5k runs back to back at 14:11 for each one.

Beat that!

In reply to ianstevens:

I almost don't care. As it's basically a demonstration event to show what a human being can do under their own power, maybe we should just go the whole hog and load an athlete up with EPO and see what happens.

In reply to planetmarshall:

Been done "Marco Pantani"

In reply to robert-hutton:

Still my favourite pro cyclist.