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If my coach watched this he would be like yeah Rudisha could’ve gotten sub 1:40 if he wasn’t wearing a watch

Incredible to see that nick symmonds is in the top 50 of all time

Impossible until some shoe company releases a high-tech 800m shoe

9 minute video explaining how incredible David Rudisha is. Great way to start my day. :)

He is almost floating on track, amazing technik and hard work that is beyond our imagination as common man. Love to see athletes achieve such an amazing feat.....

Rudisha looks totally effortless when he runs... even in the last 5 metres of a WR 800! So smooth and relaxed! Like a metronome, he just has perfect timing/coordination!

Pfff... I can double his time easily!

I once saw a short film on an Air Canada flight a few years ago about a teenage farm boy and runner who dreamed about running sub 1:40. Rudisha's races were featured in the kid's daydreams while he regularly ran 800m time trials on the farm road. The short ended with him running his course at the same time as the WR London run and his watch stopped at 1:39.9. Don't remember the name or producer. It was a cute display of the scenarios we all construct in our sports fantasy life. Mine is pulling off a Zatopek.

All it takes is to *rUN fAsTEr*

Your production value is insane. Respect.

I love these WR breakdowns. Excellent video!

The narrator is this document is the best. He truly breaks it down. I commend you on a job well done.

If you can run slowly, you can run quickly -lingling

I thought this video was made by wired based on the title

As a non-running fan in Covid this has quickly become one of my favorite channels. All these races are new to me and I’m staved for sport! Keep up the great production and many thanks.

lol anyone else see nick symmonds #35 fastest 800m on the list

idk in my math book it said this guy ran two laps around the track in 99 seconds

1:39 will most certainly be achieved. In the next 20 - 30 years.

A sub-1:40 800m seems impossible, but if the 800m ever becomes a marquee event, we might see advances in 800-specific training and nutrition that could take another Rudisha-like talent to that level.

I love this channel! Thanks for the excellent videos, they are always amazing and inspiring. Greetings from Mexico City!

Meticulously compiled video with incredible culmination! Great job, great commentary! Always a pleasure to watch TRP videos, professional work!

Once again TRP delivers with an amazing and well thought out video.

Intonation and "Howevers" are the essence of TRP. Love the videos man. Appreciate the effort. :D

INEOS 1:39 Challenge?

You’re gonna need a total rethink of the competitor focusing on the event. Imo to dip under that barrier it needs to be treated like the 400H. A total overhaul of the body type and speed profile. I don’t think a negative split is going to do it. It’s long been the prevailing loose strat and it’s just not working. My theory is it’s got to a running style/ body type of Jeremy Wariner. My ideal runner in a fantasy world would be stop everything and make Kirani James run the 8 at the expense of his entire program. He’s always had a smooth, long stride with a power finish. If he waited to pick his head up and push the drive phase out to 75m with a gentle taper into an extended cruise phase, he could be in he first athlete to split a truly effective sub 48 1 lap. If he got this down to a science, I really do think if he dedicated his career to it he could go 48, 51 and change. But you’d also have to raise the profile of the 800m and start attracting that kind of athlete younger. I was the lead off man thrown in with a trio of 1:53 guys in highschool to win state and literally couldn’t stand the 4x8. It’s the most painful, least sexy race in the entire world of athletics. Atleast while going to hell & back in the 400H you get to jump a few times lol you have to essentially convert a full on long sprinter into dedicated 800m runner and reclassify “mid distance” atleast make 800 it’s own thing mentally. Humans have no business going sub 1:40 tbh. But if you wanted to, imo you need a an entirely new athlete. Not even the great Rudisha can achieve this. What he’s done isn’t even human as is. I can’t ask more of him

Coe’s combined time at 800m & 1500m makes him the fastest of all time in the middle distance + 12 world records, 2 olympic 1500m golds, only man to hold 800m, 1000m, 1500m & mile at same time + fastest finish in a 800m 11.3 and 12.1 in a 1500m. I still think the guy to break 1.40 is not born yet

Excellent video. Many thanks

As a great man once said: nothing is impossible

Wilson Kipketer was one of the toughest runners the world has ever seen too. Broke the world record in a time of 1:41.25. Incredible grit, form, and work ethic.

The power in Rudisha's stride is amazing. With every stride one can see his hips push forward. All that power seems to be going to just the right places and smoothly. What a specimen!

Love your content brother

this is such a good channel, where has it been all my life??

People have been predicting that runners will never break barriers since records keeping began. They have all been wrong. I don't see anything different here.

The person who breaks 1:40 will do so with the assistance of ever faster tracks and improved (carbon plated) spikes, not because they are better athletes than the current athletes at the top of the all time list. There was nothing separating Rudisha and Kipketer (about 0.2secs) and considering the difference in tracks and shoes between now and 40 years ago when Coe ran 1:41.7, nothing really between them and Coe. He was ahead of his time.

Running 1 lap in 50 seconds is impressive in its self. Can’t imagine doing it back to back.

Awsum stuff! Thanks, till next time.

2:40 I know his pain

Your videos are great. I'm a swimmer and i've seen apearently unbreakable records be broken one by one. Just remember human beings are amazing. This 1'40 barrier certanly can be broken.

Getting goosebumps watching a king’s performance

Great video!

A 1:39 is not"almost impossible". People thought a sub 4 minute mile is "almost impossible" - until Bannister run that time.

When you asked 'what will it take to break this time' i had flashbacks to Kipchoge and INEOS 1:59

I put values of world record progression over last 100 years in excel, and used logarithmic formula to calculate when world records should be broken. Here is findings: 1:40 - 2030 1:39 - 2052 1:38 - 2077 And in the year 3000, we should be running 1:36.12

Would love to see a „Why it is almost impossible to run 100km in under 6 hours!“

To put this in perspective the world record for the 800m (1:40.91) is the equivalent of a pace of 4.61 seconds for the 40 yard dash, if you didn’t know running a 40 yard dash under 5 seconds is already almost impossible for your average person. So to run a 800m in a pace of 4.61 per 40 yards is godly.

Quality video👍

In my opinion the 800 m is the most challenging running distance. It requires a combination of 3 factors in order to be the best. Speed, endurance and resistance. I’m not sure if the last word is the correct translation in this context. In Dutch we call it weerstand. Unfortunately the 100 m gets all the media attention and the 800 m almost none.

Generational talent. Going to be another generation before this record is broken.

Almost impossible means it is possible.

Rudisha es el federer de los corredores...una elegancia total en todos sus movimientos...simplemente la Mecánica perfecta para correr

Very nice all the best

They say the 400 M is the hardest race to run. I disagree. The 800 M is significantly more grueling. You’ve got to run almost as fast for twice the distance. It’s mind-boggling to see these athletes run so fast. I might be able to barely keep up with them for 100 M.

Rudisha's running was a gift to the world

Getting near to 100k subscribers 🤘 🤘🤘🤘

I mean, here's the thing, in all timed sports, there is a point in history when something is said to be "impossible" or "almost impossible." With time, these barriers will eventually be shattered.

I appreciate David's talents and his countless first place finishes. I would enjoy seeing his trophy room. However, what's the big deal about being the first poster on a vid?

Just shows how good Coe was

Even though I only pr at 2:22.22 I model my stride after his. Got me to that time.

It's almost impossible, until someone does it. It will happen.

Amazing how fast Radisha is actually running when he makes it look like an effortless jog!

The one thing that we know is that it'll be broken by another Kenyan. 😁

at 3:37 you know they're going fast when Nick Symmonds looks like he's standing still.

Imagine viewing a race with all those together in the same race as ghost images. It would all be bunched up

Sir . will you post his , typical workout Video . What type of Workout he was done for this world record time......

All it needs is an air max 800 shoe😂

In believe sebastian coe done more to improve the 800m then any other runner, he took the world record in 1979 from 143,4 done to 142.4 a huge margin of improvement, if this wasnt enough two years later in 1981 he improved the world record again this time to an amazing world record of 141.73. In the london olympics of 2012 we saw propably the greatest and fastest 800m ever run, but even more amazing is that seb coe would have came second in this race with his time of 141.73 ove 30 years after his world record time, this is why i think seb coe was the greatest middle distance runner ever .

When someone masters the skill of relaxation in the last part of the race then we will see a new record. ;)

Competition...he needed another BIG to push him faster. Hope we can see it.

Correct me if im wrong but subastian wasnt running on the rubber tracks. If subadtian was. How much of an improvement would that have made?

Can someone help me to find the song in the background from 8:05 on? Just imagine running towards the finish line and just keep accelerating, slow and steadily, and you know that your peak output, the finish line and the songs apex just line up perfectly, and you just go...

You should make a David rudisha training video

I wonder how many thousands of years until the one minute barrier will be broken

The only limits are the ones we put on ourselves Like the 4 minute mile The 10 sec 100m The 15 minute 1500 m freestyle and the 2 hour marathon Nothing is impossible Just another challenge

As the great Haile Gebreselassie once said, "impossible is nothing!"

Amazing! 50.5 is my personal best my senior year in high school, and i was spent! You think you are very fast, but than realize that this dude goes and runs two of my best 400s back to back in a 800 🤣

I seriously do believe that if coe was at his peak the same time as rudisha. He would be unbeatable. Imagine if he had the training like athletes do now. He was running the streets of Sheffield. Probably never had altitude training and stuff like that. I would of loved to have been alive the same era as him.

2:25 Amel Tuka is one of them 💙

When did the sport of running start rounding times down instead of up?

It out like their sprinting at the start

Maybe the Nike viper fly will do the trick, or whatever spike nike comes out with for the 800

Well done.

Both Wilson Kipketer and Daniel Rudisha graduated from St. Patrick High School, Iten, Kenya.

Using simple math it’ll take 90 years if we improve at the average we did over the last 40 years

There should be the greatest what if story: what if Lukas verzbikas never got injured.

Oh it's certainly possible. I smoked some powerful stuff, passed out on the sofa and did a 1:37.47 for 800. It was a negative split. If it wasn't for the alarm going off I could have done a victory lap. Point is: I know it's possible.

Rudisha could have run 1:40 on a perfect day with perfect conditions and perfect pacemaking. Coe could have run faster with modern training. How much is difficult to say.

Really cool

Rudisha has long strides; he goes high with each stride. And his form is impeccable. Where every limb and motion is used to propel him along. I've seen races with him where the other runners were flailing their arms, wasting energy. He (and most other top world class runners) don't waste anything.

Another 100 years? No way. We're going to be cyber-boosted cyborgs by then.

Pretty damning trend. Good content. I think most likely it's an event that doesn't attract huge numbers. They are either pure sprinters or prefer the more endurance based events. 800m just sticks out as a bit of a dog of an event, a very tough gig.

Fantastic

I got lactic acid just watching this 💀

under 100 seconds? Crazy!.

To the general public, sprinters are so much more respected than distance runners, but for the life of me, I cannot find any reason why.

On may 19 rudisha suffered from an accidental fall in his home that resulted in a fractured ankle and had to undergo surgery. He will not be able to train for 12-16 weeks. A damaging blow to the world record holder who has constantly suffered from injury since 2017

2:17 Nick Symmonds spotting

Considering how there is not much runners close to even breaking 1:41, breaking the barrier is probably gonna be another Daniel Komen-like record.

You'd think at some point we'll reach the limit of human capability and the "world record" will be shared by a bunch of people at that limit in all these events.

Wonder how fast Coe could have gone with modern training, supplements, equipment and tracks at his best

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