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The Marathon Barrier?

Talk to any competitive long-distance runner, and they’ll know the name Eliud Kipchoge—the man who broke the untouchable barrier.?

Throughout history, runners and theorists considered a sub-two-hour marathon a fantasy.

But in May 2017, Kipchoge nearly achieved the impossible—sprinting 26.2 miles in 2:00:25. And, in October 2019, Kipchoge broke the unbreakable record in?Vienna, Austria—crossing the finish line at 1:59:40.

So, how did Kipchoge defy the odds? In the following video, Alex Hutchinson—author of?Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance—shares his theories on Kipchoge’s success.

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