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  • Chris B.C Offline
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    Hés looking good - last 3 kms!

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    Hope one of his pacers doesn't trip over...!

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    20 seconds to spare!

    Well done that man - cool finish!

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    He must have run a 2:40 last km!

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    Amazing stuff!

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    @MajorRage said in Sub two hour marathon:

    Will it be considered a world record?

    The perfect v formation in front of him at all times surely must invalidate it if so?

    Still a phenomenal achievement tho! 2:50 p/km ... farkkkkk!!!!!

    According to that ABC Grandstand piece I heard (think it was Quentin Hull?) it won't be world record. But still amazing.

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    This ups his appearance fee to run in the Berlin, London, Paris or New York marathons in the hope he might run sub-two hours there.

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    @Machpants said in Sub two hour marathon:

    Doesn't count as world record. But an amazing achievement. I couldn't keep that pace up for 120 seconds, let alone 120 minutes

    Yep, running is for emergencies only at this point in my life.

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    Cool achievement. Yes they contrive it, but Jesus that pace is awesome. Glad they made it

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    I don't care if he was towed behind a car, to run that distance at that pace is phenomenal.

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    @antipodean said in Sub two hour marathon:

    I don't care if he was towed behind a car, to run that distance at that pace is phenomenal.

    It is a Bannister moment for sure

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    New (legit) womens WR

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/50035304

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    Jim Ratcliffe has enough money to throw around for these types of races.

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    This is only tangentially related but I was reading about Tuariki Delamere on RNZ this morning and discovered that he holds an unofficial long jump world record. (Hopefully I've linked this right).

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    @Cyclops Interesting!

    Google throws up this explanatory story.

    https://magazine.wsu.edu/2016/08/04/staying-a-jump-ahead/

    Since Delamere had the longest recorded jump in a sanctioned meet using the mid-air somersault, the ban effectively sealed his status as the technique’s world record holder.

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    Apparently the fastest recorded 1,000 meter by a NZer this year is 2.44.... Eliud's fastest 1km split was 2.43

    phenomenal

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    @SammyC said in Sub two hour marathon:

    Apparently the fastest recorded 1,000 meter by a NZer this year is 2.44.... Eliud's fastest 1km split was 2.43

    phenomenal

    Who runs 1000m and times it?

    Seems likely he had the record by default.

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    @Damo said in Sub two hour marathon:

    @SammyC said in Sub two hour marathon:

    Apparently the fastest recorded 1,000 meter by a NZer this year is 2.44.... Eliud's fastest 1km split was 2.43

    phenomenal

    Who runs 1000m and times it?

    Seems likely he had the record by default.

    Good point, perhaps you should pop out tomorrow and run 1,000 metres and claim the record for yourself.

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    On average he ran 17 second 100 metre ‘sprints’ ... 420 of them in a row!!!!

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    68 second laps of a 400m track, 117 times!

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