Crazy Fast--Men's World Record Set
Try this. Head out to your local high school track. Warm up a bit and run as fast as you can for one lap. If you're in really good shape, maybe you can pull off a 2-minute quarter mile or even a 1:30.
Now, have an ambulance on standby and try to run that quarter in 1:12. It's extremely fast, elite-level fast, actually. That pace will get you a 4:45 mile. Now, do that for 26.2 miles, not letting up at all and probably throwing in a couple of even faster miles along the way.
That's what Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia did on Saturday in setting a new world record time of 2:04:26 at the Berlin Marathon. Read about it here and then sit back and try to figure out how runners of that caliber do the things they do.
Amazing.
Now, have an ambulance on standby and try to run that quarter in 1:12. It's extremely fast, elite-level fast, actually. That pace will get you a 4:45 mile. Now, do that for 26.2 miles, not letting up at all and probably throwing in a couple of even faster miles along the way.
That's what Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia did on Saturday in setting a new world record time of 2:04:26 at the Berlin Marathon. Read about it here and then sit back and try to figure out how runners of that caliber do the things they do.
Amazing.
posted by W.S. Wuori at 1:19 PM
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