Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon in a huge moment in sports history.
  • saltesc
    44·
    3 months ago

    That’s insane.

    He beat Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, who was running his first marathon and finished in 1:59.41.

    That’s just mind-blowing.

    Imagine running over 21kph for 2 hrs.

    • Botzo
      41·
      3 months ago

      For the Americans, that’s 3.84 football fields per minute; or a football field every 15⅝ seconds.

      • phar
        8·
        3 months ago

        What is it in half pickup trucks?

        • Botzo
          6·
          3 months ago

          Real quick math: ~7,139 of my truck (Ford F150 lightning at 19ft 5in), so 14,278 half pickup trucks in a marathon.

          • potoooooooo 🥔
            4·
            3 months ago

            Can I get it in 1984 F-250 XLTs? That’s the only truck I’ve personally owned.

            • Botzo
              2·
              3 months ago

              Sure. Just need some info about the options: regular or super cab, and which bumper it had. Seems like it was always the 8ft bed though.

        • Botzo
          4·
          3 months ago

          Negative. I did debate on which distance to use.

      • spring_cedar_dust@reddthat.com
        52·
        3 months ago

        I doubt that helps. Most can’t read and of them most can’t count. You’re left with very few that understand what you said

    • deus
      15·
      3 months ago

      Did I read that right? Did all the first three finishers in this race beat the previous world record? Cause if that happened in a movie I’d think the writers went too far, it’s incredible.

      • Frozengyro
        7·
        3 months ago

        Probably several beneficial factors came together just right. Good winds, clean air, good humidity, some great new equipment.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        3 months ago

        All 3 of them are pushing each other to go faster than they ever could training alone. It makes sense to me.

        I’m not a big Olympics guy but I watched the long track and field race during the Paris games. The 3 medalists were on paper slower than like 4 or so guys that dropped out of the lead at the last lap. The lead guys were running faster than they ever did and then gassed out. Then the second guy fell and so on. The gold medalist never ran that fast in his life, but was able to because of competition. It happens.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      11·
      3 months ago

      My brother runs regularly. I k ow nothing of the world of running. It blew my mind when my brother told me that the professional marathon runner’s pace is faster than my brothers sprint speed…and they maintain this constantly for hours.