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Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved

posted by martyb on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the two-hour-sprint dept.

cafebabe writes:

We've previously discussed the possibility of running a two hour marathon (with much of the usual wit in this thread). For a comparison against running one mile in four minutes, running at the pace of a five minute mile would be too slow. Like running a mile in four minutes, people said running a marathon in two hours was impossible. However, it is looking very possible with advanced footwear and suchlike. Specifically, Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge was within 0.4% of this goal. Variously reported as being 25 seconds or 26 second too slow, his effort is an unofficial world record.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:58PM (#505902)

    I think You miss the point. The technological advancement is great -- but world records in sports should not be a measure of technological advancement, but a measure of physical effectiveness. If we drape swimmers in dolphin skins, they'd probably become faster in water, but that does not break the limits of human physicality -- swimmers are still the same, regardless of technology. Any advancement is cheating in the sense that it prohibits people people with no access to the technology or a drug that makes You good at that particular sport from competing. It also cheats people from the past -- a person from the past might be better than the best runners of today, but the runners of today outperform his record just thanks to new shoe technology.