Eliud Kipchoge
almost did it, man. He was “that” close. When I first read the press releases
and the news media hoopla about Nike’s “Breaking2” project I was skeptical. Why
artificially set up all of the right parameters – course, equipment, pacers
(including Bernie [blank] Lagat!) to see if a guy could go 1:59:59 or faster
for 26.21876 miles (oops, sorry…the marathon is a metric distance; 42.195
kilometers)?
Just to see if
it could be done. To see if technology and teamwork can knock down another
“seemingly impossible” physiological barrier.
How many
people in our community toil away, putting one foot in front of the other each
day? Maybe it’s “not the Olympics,” as one guy put it to me some years back
when I commented about the relative quality of an event. But what each of you
do with your training groups, your club social runs and your events is not much
different than what Nike did here. We set the stage for people to break
their own barriers. Every day. Every weekend.
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