![]() ![]() Kipchoge and two other runners, Lelisa Desisa and Zersenay Tadese, hit the pavement with two hours on the clock. ![]() His test came on May 6 when he arrived at the Monza Formula 1 racetrack near Milan, Italy. For months, the elusive "sub-two-hour" marathon loomed over him as he underwent extensive training. Kipchoge, largely considered one of the world’s best marathon runners, had been attempting to run a marathon in under two hours. Kipchoge's attempt at history is explored in the recently released documentary Breaking2, produced by National Geographic in partnership with Nike, which is available above. That Kipchoge has entered the domain of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong – as some commentators claimed – is, however, a stretch.Twenty-five seconds-that’s how tantalizingly close Eliud Kipchoge came to a world first. It is altogether fair to reference Roger Bannister, who 65 years ago achieved what had been widely perceived as impossible by running a mile in under four minutes. ![]() Giddy comparisons to other sporting and historical acts were inevitable and duly forthcoming. What followed resembled blissful simplicity. Kipchoge described the period between a 4.50am wake-up call and his scheduled 8.15am start as the toughest of his life. When you receive so many calls from high-profile people, there is pressure.” “I received a lot of calls of encouragement from all over the world. “I felt a lot of pressure yesterday,” Kipchoge admitted. ![]() With the clock stopped and a sporting world looking on with awe, the 34-year-old Kenyan displayed all the physical strain of having walked for the morning papers. He merely pressed home the point on a misty morning in Austria. It was already known that Kipchoge is an extraordinary athlete. ![]()
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