How often has conventional wisdom claimed that something was impossible...until someone did it?
Once the 4 minute mile barrier was broken, what was once impossible became the new standard. I suspect that the same thing will happen to the 2 hour marathon.
Eddie Izzard has pushed 2 boundaries, physical and the fact that "anybody can do it". Thank you for that.
As a mentor of mine once said after he did something that I had never seen done before, "I did it because I didn't know that I couldn't."
Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots:
Reading that it sounds like his main feat was to keep running. If you do the math a 5 day/4 night race with 18hrs running a day by the other competitors gave him a 24 hour time advantage over them.
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How often has conventional wisdom claimed that something was impossible...until someone did it?
Once the 4 minute mile barrier was broken, what was once impossible became the new standard. I suspect that the same thing will happen to the 2 hour marathon.
Eddie Izzard has pushed 2 boundaries, physical and the fact that "anybody can do it". Thank you for that.
As a mentor of mine once said after he did something that I had never seen done before, "I did it because I didn't know that I couldn't."
Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots:
http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-ye...
Man, I had never heard of this guy before. That is absolutely incredible. Thanks for posting that.
Reading that it sounds like his main feat was to keep running. If you do the math a 5 day/4 night race with 18hrs running a day by the other competitors gave him a 24 hour time advantage over them.
That's real endurance!
What's more, he's a total geek/lifehacker. So it's not just that anyone can do it, it's actually that WE can do it.
I suspect that the same thing will happen to the 2 hour marathon.
Really? http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/10/15959-sub-2-hour-mar...