The role of the INEOS  

peter ama goch Congratulations, love from EU❤️

Mental aspects are amazing...

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@Samuel Mills favourite* actually. It doesn’t matter

Is that a pun?

I know few guys who done 5000 km in 50 days but can run 18 hours a day and not 24hrs ..

sean mortenson we run with our minds😂

It's the internet mate, we can be whoever we want to be

@Martin Macharia Yes Sir

My guy called it

did you go??

Hi Luke, I went and witnessed the history being made, I was so proud

I really hope so... but i dont think we are quite there yet... its only 25 sec, but thats a lot... we will see

He has done it....

@@sam.83 f off

@@jordanroyal9762 yes simply amazing performance!!

benjamin fröhlich well done, keep up the good work 👏

Drew The Goat and then there’s me who just started running trying to get sub 7:00 mile

Not flexing lol

It's all good. This sport is about YOU and a lifetime journey. I can't tell you how many times I've been needing to think and strapped on a pair of shoes and bolted. Rain, sun, fog. Although I'm much older now and slower I still feel it's medicine after I run. Nothing like it and helps me think. Enjoy and good luck on breaking your record.

And to the pace makers thank you for being such a great support to our man! God bless you all.

I read somewhere that they get 10k each.

I wish I could even do it for free or pay for be there

@@infusedkatze That's not much.

What about Kipchoge how much will they pay him?

@@Bmmhable Lol, that shouldn't matter, they are trying to become part of history.

Yes, on this channel at 2:00 am (Eastern U.S.) on the 12th of October.

I guess it is just some footage they put in the video to help us visualise. The challenge starts on the 12th of October and ends on the 20th.

he will cross in 2:00:03

@@sam.83 Nah, I believe in the sub-2

That clip was from the test run event where all the pacers ran without Eliud.

Samuel Medrea with that you can dive

As a former marathoner myself (11 total) the average person has no clue as to what kind of pace a sub-2 hr marathon entails. Even elite athletes find it difficult to comprehend.

Simulation of the real race, it was only the last 5 km!

Pacers rehearsal

lmao no he can't

Nah mate kipchoge is better than him

I don't think so. Bekele is simply the best distance runner ever. The goat would have beat the wr in Berlin, under dry circumstances.

@@pilot0710 actually he can, having physical issues during 5km in the Berlin marathon and just 3 months of proper training, he arrived just 2 seconds above wr

@ Eric. Maybe you are right for it will be a flat course. However, he came 5th in London last year!

This is a Kalenjin to the world affair

Wait for your turn. This is our (Kenyans') sorry, Eliuds time !!!

Eish, if he wasn't chosen, just support your brother. I'm a great fan of my Ethiopian brothers and sisters I take pride whenever you win or when we take it. So no one is saying KB ain't great but oh Kipchoge is greater..

Saturday, October 12

FOREVER LUV U LONG TIME pretty sure there ” Pegasus 36’s “

Yes the IAAF doesn’t ratify records like this one because of that. This challenge is just to show that it is possible to run under 2 hours. Won’t be world record. But hey it will surely be something special.

@@Benbenq99 It will surely be a record in the Guinness Book of Records.

Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 254 Ye it will probably. Just not an IAAF world record.

Kelly Mojica because if they do it with official way, then no one will be able to keep up with eliud so he will have to run on his own.

7 sec short

Yes. They've got about a week long period when then can run it

The intended date is 12. October, but if the weather is suboptimal they will delay it until up to 20. October

Jack yeah they need a Tesla and it has the electronic capabilities

Very true!

in one video there was an audi etron. think on the event the pacecar will be powered without fossil fuel

Very true! They will be subjected to carbon monoxide poisoning!

my name is I highly recommend running faster

@@andreijhorn5849 i get tired and lactic pain makes me stop

That was promotional i think. He wasnt wearing that in the official race

Kumbaff

@@gladyschesire6129 between u&me who sounds like a kumbafu

Well, for one he didn't have competitors.

waditha gamage it is not an official race not under race conditions. This was just setup to try to get the best conditions possible for a race for someone to break it. Not official race conditions

Did they break the 2h during the attempt rehearsal???

@@lucaboni4708 looks like that

Probably just one of the pacers, them going a tad fast on that rehearsal

Girish Gogate thats clearly not Eliud

Just practicing, that's not actual time

add on with Team...and Team Spirit.

It was a reconstruction of what it would look like, it was only the last 5 km

@@hidde44 oh ok

Because its probably hard to find somewhere in the world that is downhill for 26 miles. I think it being straight is more important, and the fact its flat means they can do laps without any up hills or downhills.

Try finding 26.2 miles of straight smooth downhill. Now trying finding a downhill that doesn't start at 5000ft up.

@@marcwanagas1234 There is a course in Andalucia, Spain. Anthony Karinga split 1.25.40 for 30K last month. Kipchoge probably would've finished it in well under 2hrs but doesn't matter, he did it anyway ;)

@Kelly Mojica If you can find pacers who can keep up with Eliud for the entire distance, feel free to send them Ineos' way. I personally see it as a world record, despite what IAAF or Guiness Book says. The guy will run the distance using his own two feet.

@@jacksonm.6549 They could have Kenenisia Bekele hold the sub 2 pace with him for at least the majority of the race... Bekele is already fast enough to hold it for a while and even if he drops out he could still help push Kipchoge

@@jacobwilson9623 Too risky, with Bekele and his injury issues in the past.

@Kuroko Aldo, he will be competing against the clock. No human competitor.

Nevertheless no pacemaker could give him guidance the whole race with the benefits of wind shadow and a precise speed to run under 2 hours. This plus they let them have a time window of 8 days to do it under the best circumstances disqualifies them from a official world record for in my opinion good reasons. The track, the weather conditions, the equipment which is used and the pacemakers which rotates plus a car and the specific pick of a course which nearly shuts down all wind from the side because of the trees plus the large crowd to increase the effect. This are a few reasons why it would be unfair to measure it with regular marathon times on official tracks under competition rules and circumstances. But dont get me wrong. If he can achieve a time under2 hours it would be phenomenal and outstanding... Even if it's not a official WR in marathon.

@Kuroko The claim that "no human is limited" is just about the WORST thing Eliud has ever said. EVERY human IS limited in a 1,000 different ways (can't go without eating, sleeping or using the bathroom; can't run as fast as a cheetah; can't breath underwater; can't ...)

@Kuroko The problem is the words HE USES: "No human is limited" - is at best a mis-statement; at worst, just dead wrong. Sure, we can assume that what he means; my point, is that HIS WORDS don't convey THAT message. Given that they don't, they are pretty useless, imo.

@@teddy1234599 They are talking about mental barriers. In endurance sports hitting the wall is the stage where you body gives in and only your mental fortitude will get you passed that phase. The same can applied to different situations in life too.

Yes....Bekele is in great form. Kipchoge should be Bekele's pacemaker...

Uhm yea.. I respect your beliefs!

Prayers have NEVER worked. Ask any AMPUTEE if all the prayers in the world ever got them back their severed limb? Further, why don't you (and all the billions of other believers) PROMISE TO NO LONGER USE MEDICAL SERVICES - and, instead, just pray when you get sick or injured. Bet you aren't willing to put your nonsense idea into practice. By the way, there are 100,000 VERSIONS of god(s) - at least 99,999 of which MUST BE WRONG. The odds that you were born into the right belief system are on the nanoscale; much more likely that YOUR VERSION of god is just as bogus as the other 99,999 are.

@@Johnny-cz2wv I don't; why should YOU? You don't even know WHICH of the 10s of thousands of god-belief systems this guy upholds - almost for sure NOT YOUR VERSION.

@@teddy1234599 I'm an atheist so yea.. Probably not my model of reality but that's ok :)

@@Johnny-cz2wv Cool. I just do not believe that theist viewpoints deserve respect (or if they deserve "respect"; it is the respect of ridicule for being ridiculous views; unsupported by any evidence & flying in the face of all that makes sense: talking snakes, a guy surviving in a whale for 3 days; virgin births, dying (but not really) for the sins of others (yet not then going to hell for those sins!) ...

This is not about breaking the world record legally - you have normal marathons for that. This is about showing to everyone's mind and consciousness that it is physiologically possible to run the marathon in less than 2 hours. Much of the barriers in sport over the last century has largely been psychological: think the sub-4 minute mile for example. With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that it's physiologically possible to run a mile in under 4 minutes; in fact more than 20,000 people have done it ever since Roger Bannister first did. But at the time, basically everyone thought it wasn't physically possible, that you would literally die if you were to do it. Because so many people had attempted it in a span of a decade and failed over and over again, there was this general unspoken consensus that there exists a physical limit that prevented mankind from ever being able to do it. Today, we know that those limitations were purely psychological. This event is tailored to specifically address and dismantle that psychological barrier, so that the full extent of the top athletes' physical capabilities can be unleashed in the marathon, which will likely see us legally breaking the 2-hour barrier in the future. But in order to achieve that, we first need to convince the mind that it is physiologically possible. And you do that by carefully controlling all the other variables (weather, pacing, hydration etc.) so the body can fully focus on running. To put the current WR into perspective, if someone were to say Eliud would run a 2:01:39 WR in the marathon the day after Dennis Kimetto broke the then -WR in Berlin in 2014 with a 2:02:57, we would've laughed at him because the WR is normally broken by small margins-it gets harder the faster that record becomes. But the experience of running an assisted 2:00:25 in the Nike Breaking 2 event completely revamped Eliud's mind. It showed him that it was physically capable to run a lot faster than the then WR, which resulted in his 2:01:39. Once he's done that, you know what that does? This in turn convinced Kenenisa in his mind that he's capable of running a similar time himself (remember he's arguably the best distance runner of all time overall; Eliud is still the marathon G.O.A.T.) since he sees himself being on a similar level to Eliud, if not better. That gave us the wonderful 2:01:41 the other day in Berlin, just 2s off the WR in a less than ideal run. The human mind is an amazing thing. Once you convince it that something is possible, you'd be astonished by what it can help you achieve, which is a philosophy that's applicable to all facets of our lives. This is what I love about this 1:59 challenge.

@@rovingrangerr sounds good to me.

@@GreatNewsVideo Cheers mate, if the improvements they made in this project after learning from the near-miss of the Nike Breaking 2 event are anything to go by, Eliud will most certainly run below 2 hours, and that's being conservative. Factor in the massive presence of supporters (which gives a massive psychological boost), the fact that this event is catered specifically to Eliud, the slight improvements in the Vaporfly shoes, a better course, most likely better conditions (as they've allocated 9 days to pick the best one to run the race on, instead of just 3 during the Breaking 2 event), a better pacing team and Eliud's improved fitness since running the 2:00:25, he will likely smash the barrier by a huge margin. One important, less-talked about tweak that has a massive impact is the INEOS team's choice of the wording-"1:59 Challenge" (which imprints the visual in Eliud's mind of running a 1:59:XX marathon) instead of Nike's "Breaking 2" tagline (which subconsciously conditioned his mind to see himself running a 2:XX:XX marathon before the event, which is exactly what ended up happening). It's great that the INEOS team have/consulted experts in the field of psychology for this event. Looks like a small detail, but it actually plays such a huge role psychologically.

@@rovingrangerr wow I love yo explanation!