And of course, he’s the only athlete to have ever run a marathon in under two-hours, which he did back in 2019 in Vienna as part of the 1:59 challenge. Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan athlete who is widely regarded as the greatest marathon runner of all time – he has won two successive Olympic marathons and 10 major titles. "I was telling to the world, 'Please just sit and watch with your own two eyes that 12 October 2019 is the day whereby history has been made,'" he says in the film.This week’s guest is someone who I have been trying to set up a face to face conversation with for around 2 years. Kipchoge motioned between his eyes and the crowd. He waved off his pacers for the last 500 meters, giving a thumbs up. "It was really helpful to hear everybody actually screaming," Kipchoge says in the documentary, adding that he got a morale boost from hearing people say he would make it. While Kipchoge ran, a crowd of 120,000 people cheered him on. Studies have shown the Vaporfly's combination of carbon fiber and foam confers about 4% more energetic efficiency, which could allow long-distance runners of Kipchoge's caliber to shave three minutes or more off their marathon times.Īlphaflys also incorporate two air pods under the shoe sole for an added energy return per footfall. Kipchoge also wore a prototype of Nike's Vaporfly shoe called the Alphafly. Kipchoge celebrates with fans who watched him run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria, October 12, 2019. That made them titled at an angle, a change that saved Kipchoge 12 seconds, according to the documentary. And the entire route had just 8 feet of incline.Įvent organizers transformed the two roundabouts into banked turns by repouring the asphalt in those parts of the course. Minimizing curves was crucial, since they require runners to exert more energy than sprinting straight. Ineos, the UK-based petrochemical company that sponsored Kipchoge's second attempt, selected Prater Park in Vienna because it offered a route that has a 2.7-mile straightaway with roundabouts on either end. Half a million people across 196 countries tuned into the live broadcast. Kipchoge said that's because he was more confident in his training: "What makes my mind to be more relaxed is the culmination of training for four or five months." Kipchoge, in white, and his pacers at the starting line of the Ineos 1:59 Challenge marathon in Vienna, Austria, October 12, 2019.
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