The World Record That NOBODY Thought Could Fall

WTF...

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[buckydoc]

I would be very interested in a video dedicated entirely to the guys who serve as elite pacers.

[forrestgump]

Ruth's average pace was within half a second of my flat-out mile PR, which is just absolutely mind-blowing to me 😳

[DadBodRunning]

The pacer got tenth overall in the men's just think about that.

[Bryan_Gutierrez]

What an achievement! Chicago 24 was sooo awesome. Ran it myself and set a PR of 2:48:29. To see these elites doing things like this is wild.

[Alex-ucqc]

Cool how the "shortest" and "longest" distances in athletics hold the iaaf score records.

[grandmastermario]

It was only 57 years ago that men first broke the sub 2:10 and in official marathon still the last 10 minute barrier anyones broke so far.

[jandrew]

Amazing to say the least! A little bit of history of the Marathon. As a high school jr and senior (1966-1967) I had the honor of running and training with American born runner Buddy Edelen who held many American records in his day, including the first man or women to break 2:15 minutes in the marathon. His world record of 2 hr. 14min. 28 sec was set in 1963. Distance running in this country had not taken hold during Buddy's best years where he mostly competed in Europe with the world best distance runners. He was crowned by kings and queens in some events for winning in Europe where distance has long been a favorite sport. I met Buddy out on the roads one day, when he came to train for the 1968 Olympics in the high altitude of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The elevation in my hometown Alamosa, Colo was the same 7000 ft above sea level as Mex. City. By this time Buddy was experiencing some severe nerve pain in his legs and hips during his runs...so the altitude training literally lowered the number of miles he needed to train compared to sea level. he wanted one more shot at an Olympic medal at the 1968 Olympics which was the second time he would represent the USA, he placed 6th in 1964, 11th in 1968. Buddy was a great distance runner, but also a college professor and that allowed him to join the faculty at Adams State College, (now university) to teach and train. His influence on distance running has helped make ASC famous for its XC and track programs. I learned so much from buddy about training... I increased my own h.s. times many times under his guidance... my practiced times going into my senior year, (4:17 mile and (9:11 two mile) would have erased the state records for those distances in 1967, but unfortunately soon after running these times in late summer of 1966, I tore up my ligaments playing basketball going into my senior xc season. I still managed to run some good times. but the12 week layoff and the phycological damage it did to me, I never ran as fast before I left high school. But I continued to be a lifelong runner and eventually a well respected xc and track coach.... I used many of the training tips I got from buddy, which helped me build championship xc and track teams during the 1990's-early 2000's ...and over 30 state individual and team champions... Buddy was a big part of my coaching success, and I will honor his gift to me forever. His passing away in 1997 at age 60, was just a few years before the amazing evolution in distance running. I think buddy would be totally blown away how distance running has evolved and truly amazed at what women are capable of... I too am excited and proud of them. Running across the world in every distance is just plain extraordinary to say the least... and I Love it!

[philippeterson]

At the three minute mark, where is Sidney McLaughlin Leverone’s 400 m hurdle world record? That comes in at 1323 points.

[nnathanaguirre]

99% chance she’s juicing. She’s never shown potential anywhere close to sub 2:10, and considering she ran 2:24 in london earlier this year, that would be like Eliud or Kelvin having ran a 2:15 prior to running a WR

[josephgschwartz]

Roger Bannister’s first ever sub 4 minute mile. That’s the only answer I will accept.

[thedailystride]

Bro that opening half marathon is insane…like wtf

[stephenkatua]

Kenyan women now hold World records in 1, 500m, 3000m steeplechase, 10, 000m, 10 km road race and now again th womens marathon. The only long distance record missing is the women's 5, 000 after Faith Kipyegons world record in this distance was broken earlier this year. This is simply amazing

[payrysdoscs]

Thank you for bringing up Chicago '22, this was that except she was able to finish as well as she started.

[YAOCHENWANG-zmqy]

Missing Karsten Warholm's 1341 in the top ten bro

[mabotiyn]

It’s funny how they were thinking Kabede was gonna break the world record. She got demolished

[derekrunsagain]

There's another way of looking at this: once the distances starts to get long then the relative difference between men and women decreases. It could be argued that Radcliffe's record wasn't as tough as believed and that only now are women attacking the long distance records in increasing numbers and with the same regimes as the men.

[JoeSmith-jdzg]

Ryan Crouser's 23.56 meter shot put throw in May 2023 was worth 1334 points on the World Athletics (WA) scoring table. Yeah, I know it's not running, but worth pointing out!

[wvdoug]

In the top 10 list, you didn't include Sydney McLaughlin 400mH WR that gave her a score of 1322

[ingvarkey]

Pharma is the true game changer😂. Diet woke

[thedailystride]

I’d love to think Chepngetich is really clean…but it’s hard to deny it’s a big possibility she’s enhanced in some way