NYT SPORT: How Fast Is Eliud Kipchoge? You’ll Fall Down When You Find Out.
By Scott Cacciola
Section: Sports
Source: New York Times
Kipchoge, who will run his first Boston Marathon on Monday, holds the world record for 26.2 miles. This is what happens when mere mortals try to keep his pace.
BOSTON — Some numbers are difficult to comprehend. The human body, for example, is made up of about 40 trillion cells. Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun (give or take a couple of million).
And Eliud Kipchoge has run a marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds.
Anyone remotely familiar with the marathon — and all 26.2188 miles of its muscle-searing masochism — can appreciate that Kipchoge’s world record for the distance, which he set last September when he won the Berlin Marathon for the fourth time, is fast. But how fast, exactly?
Well, you could head to your neighborhood track and try to run a 400-meter loop, which is roughly equivalent to a quarter-mile, in about 69 seconds — and run an additional 104 laps at that pace. Or you could attempt to run a 4:37 mile, then do another 25 of them. Published Date: April 14, 2023 at 03:00AM
By Scott Cacciola
Section: Sports
Source: New York Times
Kipchoge, who will run his first Boston Marathon on Monday, holds the world record for 26.2 miles. This is what happens when mere mortals try to keep his pace.
BOSTON — Some numbers are difficult to comprehend. The human body, for example, is made up of about 40 trillion cells. Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun (give or take a couple of million).
And Eliud Kipchoge has run a marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds.
Anyone remotely familiar with the marathon — and all 26.2188 miles of its muscle-searing masochism — can appreciate that Kipchoge’s world record for the distance, which he set last September when he won the Berlin Marathon for the fourth time, is fast. But how fast, exactly?
Well, you could head to your neighborhood track and try to run a 400-meter loop, which is roughly equivalent to a quarter-mile, in about 69 seconds — and run an additional 104 laps at that pace. Or you could attempt to run a 4:37 mile, then do another 25 of them. Published Date: April 14, 2023 at 03:00AM
Read More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/sports/kipchoge-boston-marathon-pace.html
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