March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 34m
English

On October 12, 2019, thirty-four-year-old Olympic champion from Kenya, Eliud Kipchoge, made history by completing a marathon (26.2 miles) with an earth-shattering time of one hour, fifty-nine minutes, and forty seconds. I want to take a moment to acknowledge just how ridiculously fast this is. This pace averages to 4:33:84 per mile! The median marathon finishing time in 2019 for men in U.S. marathons was four hours, thirty minutes, and forty-six seconds (10:19 per mile).1 When considering this, it’s very hard to wrap one’s mind around how someone can accomplish a full marathon in 1:59:40. ...