Re: Eliud Kipchoge
Micky DarrellHoldsworth_MaraSonnerFalstaffWe don't know if this was a phenomenal feat or not. It can only really be assessed when other athletes have competed with exactly the same support. I have a feeling that there could be a few that would run similar times. That's why this is a bit of an irrelevance. Competitive athletics has to be consistent.
Sorry, could you name the 'few' runners that could do something similar? I can think of one other in the history of the marathon, and even then it's a very long shot.
I still can't establish whether the pacemakers could join the race at any stage. I guess they must have been able to. If not there are 7 runners in this picture who could do something similar.
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the point being, if people can join just to shield him then why bother having people at all. Just use some sort of mechanical windbreak.
They were rotating 40+ pacemakers, in large part because very few people in the world could run that pace for 30k, let alone a full marathon.