Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon, smashing world record (www.cnn.com)
from cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 12:43
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bassomitron@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 13:13 next collapse

That’s simply insane. ~13.1 miles (~21.1 km) at <57 minutes is such an incredible pace. That averages out to about 4:20 minutes per mile, or 2:42 minutes per kilometer.

Amazing.

lennybird@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 13:27 next collapse

That’s 13.8 miles per hour. Faster than my commercial treadmill can go. I’ve run a half marathon and mostly focus on 5ks and I even hobby runners won’t be able to sustain 13.8 mph for much more than a minute let alone 57…

Insane!

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 14:19 collapse

Right?? Even at my peak fitness, my fastest mile was about 4:10 and I literally puked after just doing one mile (and I definitely didn’t keep running afterwards). Here’s this dude maintaining that speed for 13 miles.

filister@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 05:43 collapse

Here my upvote for going the extra mile (kilometrer) to provide both distance and pace in both metric and imperial.

dmtalon@infosec.pub on 17 Feb 13:38 next collapse

An incredible run… My best half is exactly an hour slower. And I’m pretty confident I cannot run one 4:20min mile.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 14:36 next collapse

I can run a mile in… holy fuck, never mind. My heart is going to explode. I ran how much? 20 yards?

Being old sucks.

Ziggurat@fedia.io on 17 Feb 15:53 collapse

Please tell me you're mixing miles and km. Because that look an insane pace

Pronell@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 13:39 next collapse

Damn, he beat the record by 42 seconds. That’s extremely impressive. I’d assumed it would be less then a ten second difference.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 14:24 next collapse

Athens is going to know about their victory over the Persians in 490BC so fast

filister@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 05:40 next collapse

And here I am happy when I run 10 km in under an hour. Damn this guy is amazing

themaninblack@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 15:21 collapse

will you please reLAX?!