Nike Breaking2 Sub 2hour Marathon Attempt with Eliud Kipchoge, Zersenay Tadese and Lelisa Desisa

this is incredible as we stand by for the start 15 seconds [Music] [Applause] as we see that that arrow formation of the Pacers that we talked about in our earlier meetings what's the significance of the style that we see the paces in this this sort of three at the front three along the back oh we talked about the nerves and the anticipation of the three runners but the Pacers would have had a huge amount of nerves and adrenaline coursing through them to get into this formation so we can see at the front that that's actually Chris Derrick at the front and I think it's it's Andrew fumble over behind him and Sam's Langer alongside him there'll be the front three and then the other three guys in in a line behind them they will be the second stage so after the first loop which actually will be a little bit shorter because they started on the back straight so when they come through with 17 laps to go the front three will peel off and the back three will move forward into that triangle formation and another three guys will come in and sort of have another lap to get themselves on pace the idea being that then they hit the pace perfectly and that's going to be the key factor here today is that the three athletes attempting the the barrier they have perfect specially they're not allowed to go too fast so they can't mess up their pacing by going too fast too soon they're held to what we hope is the perfect pace to break through the barrier what kind of responsibility do it do these Pacers have as opposed into it to a normal style race well as we said earlier all the major marathons have Pacers and they feel the same sort of responsibility there often training partners of the athletes in the different major marathons where they're doing pacing here it's a little bit different in the sense that there's a very precise goal of hitting as paulus at the exact time frames they want to hit 250 per kilometer around for 34 per mile around 14 13 / 5k very precise planning around those times even pacing throughout and the goal of that of course is to get to the halfway mark on pace and go from there mindset was not being in a position where your economizing what your splits are going to look like but really being let these athletes being let go send it from the get-go what do you think that's like sort of for their mindset just to switch from what they're used to well I mean they're pretty used to being dialed into performing front from the goal it's a little bit more unique here because they're not actually racing to particularly win the race although let's not get that confused from the start every one of these guys wants to be the first person to break through that barrier and they want to be the first person across the line so they are racing as well but they're really focused on laying it all on the line and trying to to commit from the beginning to basically what we call in marathon running kind of redline it the whole way which is hold it on that line of the lactate threshold so that you're maintaining pretty much as fast as you can go in an even pace over the race without tipping over that line and here you see that first change of the Pacers coming in that will take place on a regular basis the basic format is that each pacer will run a 5k before they go out and get a rest of about 26 to 28 minutes they'll do half of that distance or one lap in the V shape in the front and the other half across a line behind that V shape as Paulo mentioned they've been practicing all week and and those Pacers take a great deal of responsibility for this they feel like they're an important part of this which they are and their training has reflected that yes sorry I was just gonna say that's the first changeover done smoothly which is kind of what we wanted to see and what we wanted to see them relaxed into it's probably also worth pointing out the line is actually a big help to them too because the green line you can see projected there is basically where they need to keep up too so that's a big help for these paces it's not like on a track where they're going through every hundred meters and they can see the splits so to hit it perfectly they're getting a little bit of help there and the exact formation this V shape in front and the line across what that was developed from studies that were done in a wind tunnel at the University of New Hampshire so they took groups of athletes into the wind tunnel they tried different ways and they also have informed the athletes where is the best place for them to stand behind the Pacers to get the maximum drafting tape I found it interesting that as erson they started his watch at the start he didn't trust the very sophisticated time and then we have here you see that pace car at the front there that is being precision driven because that pace car needs to stay at a specific speed well they're actually two drivers one to steer and one to keep the pace proper two years in the making you spoke about the science that has got into this these athletes have been working in tandem with those scientists to get to this moment in which we try and see if we can see what's on the other side of the human spirit and get below these two hours and possibly make history [Music] - I think I should [Music] I think it with the greatest moment in athletics why not couple decades Oh that's what I think this orphanage [Music] whatever happens happens and that I feel is a recipe print [Music] [Music] [Applause] it's about human endeavor why would you trust climb Everest wanted to try to go to the moon is about the journey is about learning what our capabilities are [Music] that Bill Bowerman quote the real purpose of running isn't to win a race it's the test the limits of the human heart it is it's powerful there are a lot of a lot of people and critics who might say well if you don't know that it can be done and it's never been done before why go through all of this why why do this if you risk maybe perhaps not getting to that barrier I think that's what these guys do every day and what every athlete no matter what level you're at everybody wants to see where their potential lies to see just how fast they can run and see what they can do I know that's what I wanted to do through my career was finish and look back and say okay that was as good as I was capable of doing so for these guys to get that opportunity to have the whole science background behind them and that's another factor that's so fascinating in all of this is we can look at all the sciences and we can do all the numbers and all the calculations but these guys are human and now we're actually gonna see what a human being can do and sometimes that doesn't always tally with a science sometimes they can go beyond that and they're getting the chance to really test that limit yeah sometimes athletes and I'm sure you've gone through this in your career where you might be criticized for your beliefs for your actual belief in yourself and what you're capable of and now to be able to have scientists say I will take your belief will plug in science and help you get to the place where that belief can be actuated and one of the things that went into choosing these three athletes was that they embrace this they weren't they didn't have to have their arm twisted that no one had to tell them you must do this they saw the potential of this and I think Paula says it you know beautiful insight this was another kind of challenge for them you know they they'd set world records in the case observe Sanae they paid one major marathon's the other two but this was different and this was something new for them that would motivate and motivate their team motivate their coach their group and they were really part of something and to me again it harkens back to the early 50s when people were chasing after the first sub four-minute mile when scientists at that time were not the friends of the athletes scientists were telling ethics their heart might explode if they broke four minutes because people had been trying to break four minutes since the first man broke for ten joules loud to make from France in 1929 so for more than 20 years people had been trying to break that barrier unsuccessfully but someone like Roger Bannister himself a scientist was able to embrace the possibility he didn't believe in the limits and he was able to become the first man to break four minutes you see a nice shot of the paces we saw the scientists in the piece dr. Jones dr. Skiba dr. Wilkins and dr. Brett Kirby Paula you've had a chance to work with some of them correct yeah I worked with dr. Andy Jones through through my career he actually started helping me out prior to winning the world cross-country junior title back way back in in end of 1991 when I was I was actually anemic at the time but I didn't know what was wrong with me so they sent me to tests with Andy and then we've discovered that I was anemic we started kind of building my own stores back up again and he sent me off to to the world cross country championships in Boston with a little folder from my testing done like just before I go on the plane pretty much a week before so on the plane out there I was reading through the numbers the best I'd ever tested and his kind of predictions you can really go out there and you can meddle there and that's key I think being told that yes you know you're in the best shape that you're in but also the science shows that you're in the best shape that you're in means that these guys step up to the line that a little bit more confident that they are already supremely confident but to know that yeah the numbers back it up sends you there with a little bit of a boost and that little bit of extra energy to know yes I can run that and see those numbers clicking by on the car in front of me and I'm on pace for this I know that things are gonna work out today I'm feeling good and a lot of this first stage would have been about that but when you start a marathon what you really want to do is run that first mile and know okay things are clicking things feel good I feel like I am on today because if you're feeling rough in that first mile it's it's a long way out there for North American so to know that things are feeling good to know that the science is there and your legs are really with you that's what these guys want to be feeling as you see a shot of the three elite of the elite Elliot to chug it from Kenya in the orange we talked at the beginning in our pre-show about his mindset for him this is a meditation as we'll see him described right now [Music] marathon is life [Music] life is well progress with good training I don't see my I can travel at all this the chance very nice earlier no you money is limited that's - its north about Alex it's about the half and mine we've a strong heart and good mind you can see it you sort of like a chess grandmaster or some kind of Zen guy you know he's very chill and he goes out he gets the job done if you don't do your mind control you in his channel I don't you get the person to cross the line and Rylander close [Music] there's only one winner that's obvious that mindset fully on display that that real core belief and determination that has gotten him to the place where as we mentioned at the top seven of the eight marathons that he's running he's won and the other one he finished second and the guy who beat him set a world record so nothing to be ashamed of I think that it comes from from the culture of Kenya it's such a tradition of great runners over the years when he was growing up in cats to see WA Kenya he would sometimes watch as Patrick sang who's now his coach would run by he was eight years old when sang won the silver medal in the steeplechase at the Barcelona Olympics when he started running motivated by sang sang even when gave him shoes gave him equipment gave him workouts and all these years later they're still working together and you know he's learned from the generations of Kenyan runners who have broken all sorts of barriers over the years and it's just internalized to him yeah it is definitely a culture I got to spend some time last year in Eaton in Kenya at some of the camps and I was I was blown away by that just collective that they all seem to possess at that real real belief that they can be the best in the world despite coming from a very small place just above the Rift Valley in Kenya as we see our first five kilometer split the significant to that so they went through the first five kilometers in in 14 14 I think they were aiming for four fourteen ten and the significance of that is that in the last what 400 meters since they went through that split the pace has picked back up again and they've actually jumped up on the regret projected time from from two hours and eight to one 5956 and as much as we can say look how calm and focus any of Kip shogi is in there you can absolutely bet he's the one who went up guys up because he wants to hit those splits and he's although he looks really calm and really focused like he's not thinking of anything everything will be going over in his mind because that's that's the way he runs the way he analyzes all the information that comes to him in the race and processes that the intention for it from training was to for this team to stay as close together as possible how long do you think that they'll be able to last in this grouping well that's what's so fascinating we're gonna find that out they're gonna just basically for the first time try and run on a pace for as long as possible so it's a little bit changed from trying to get suit to the end as fast as possible they're trying to stick to that base for as long as possible and we'll see how far they can do it we need to see a nice shot that arrow group of Pacers Kevin Hart our sideline reporter has been is embedded there with the Pacers Kevin this intense out here guys and let me where we have some audio difficulties with Kevin we'll get his his mic fixed and then get some perspective from him there the Pacers have a specific situation there they have trainers they're getting nutrition they've physio for that 27 minutes or so during the break so that they can be able to get right back into the mix and now not lose and one key things just point out as well as they're running along so that redline is different to the traditional blue line that we see in the marathon so traditionally the blue line signifies the shortest line that you should run on the course that red line actually indicates the inside line so they need to run in outside of that to be running exactly the the measured distance in this course is fully certified it's all been fully measured out by one of the best guys David cuts in the business who makes sure that they hit it exactly there so he has said don't worry if some of the Pacers step inside of that line will step on that line then we don't really mind if they don't run the exact distance it doesn't matter they're only running 5k each time and but the guys behind it you won't see them step near that line and but they will run as close to it as possible to be absolutely running the shortest line to hug it and take advantage of it as much as possible when you look at the at the different styles in in the manner in which Elliott Alisa and deserts in a run they they look different but it it works for them what are some of the key things well one of the interesting things in the testing that was done was they all were incredibly efficient now you look at their styles they're all different but efficiency has to do with the individual athlete and their physiological makeup and their biomechanics and Zeus innate today the Dessay is known to be incredibly efficient indeed he sits on the half marathon world record can he double it up with that type of pace here today don't candy like when it's not around I could didn't knew madam sirs name is the Rocky Balboa of this group I look at him as this guy who with the least amount o ttle of support probably but he's getting it done and when I look at his trading I mean that highest he's incredible half marathon ideas as we've seen he's actually one of the most accomplished distance runners of all time and I don't think he's got the credit that he deserves would I [Music] but Thursday what I've seen from him his speed he is so fast this guy is an absolutely [Music] snake does a project is named a carrot what a lot [Music] the Rocky Balboa of this group that is strong I think it's significant you see him taking fluids here this was the thing as Paula said earlier that has held him back in the marathons that he's tried your hydration strategy is not so important in the half marathon where he's a four-time world champion in the world record holder but to go the marathon distance you've got to take both fluids and energy while you're running each of these guys has a different fluid that is tailored to the kind of sweating that they do all of which was studied and the kind of energy that they need at different points in the race specific carbohydrate specific sugars even that are particular to each runner specific salts as well things that they know their their stomach can tolerate that's really important in the marathon that you can take on on fluid and you're not taking on here it's it's ideal because they're not taking on too much at one time when you're you're usually racing a marathon you take on fluids every five kilometers you need to get a little bit more in you but go in there getting it as often as they want and certainly every lap so every 2.4 kilometers they can take on smaller amounts that can be then absorbed better and more efficiently into their body and that's the key point I think when we talk about Thursday and how efficient he is but how it really hasn't performed in line with his abilities so far over the marathon distance and I think that's key it's down to to the fueling he just hasn't been able to optimize that strategy in the human body with the glycogen reserves we can put in place before the race can only get to around about 20 miles in a marathon and then after that you have to have taken on fuel during the race and that's what he's really really worked hard on perfecting so that he's getting optimal fuel into his body to be able to maintain that pace throughout the race because at that twenty mile mark if you don't have the fuel what happens in your body you hit the wall with a big bang and that's what the and it's painful as completely as a civilian who has run one marathon I ran New York in 2009 I hit that wall and it was the worst day of my life I was literally looking to the heavens and asking it to die I didn't and and I finished and I was really I was humbled it was one of the most humbling experiences of my life and I couldn't imagine what it's like at this level yeah I think that's the key thing about the marathon is that it is humbling it's very much a distance that yeah you can conquer but you always need to respect it Kevin the Pacers are approaching you sir what is your perspective down there well first of all amazing transition after talking about the humbling wall of death I am out here right now in the land where I probably shouldn't be I'm here with the Pacers it's intense okay when I say intense I mean intense these guys aren't talking they aren't breathing they aren't high-fiving there's no celebration it is all business because they have a job to do with that being said I'ma be honest I was kicked out of the tent I was kicked out I was there I tried to get some conversations and a group of guys told me I didn't belong here one of the most awkward situations of my life I said I'm famous nobody cared this this isn't the place of Fame it's the place for history to be made so I politely walked outside the gate technically I'm not even on the track right now this is uncomfortable for me I've never been treated like this but it's okay it's okay because I'm here to witness history and I have nothing but respect and admiration for all of these Pacers man because they're coming in they're assisting on a big day guys this is a big day and I'm thank you Kevin I think it is Mike cut out at the end it didn't cut out guys I'm asked to move again I'm sorry I gotta get out of here I gotta move I think they think that you think this is breaking to electric boogaloo but this that's not what it is this is this is breaking to trying to break the two hour barrier of the marathon you like that one I know you did good and we saw that transition that the formation I mean these the they you can tell that they the the Pacers have obviously rehearsed and trained so hard what kind of communication are they having when they're in this group if any I I think the biggest thing is that they have been really drilled in it but also to accept that the Pacers coming in they will be really nervous about getting this right this is a really big deal it's not just like pacing in a regular marathon this is everything is keyed in to breaking through this barrier so they need to get it right and they need to get it perfectly right and so far they're doing a great job they're really hitting it bang-on they're a little bit ahead even if scheduled they projected at the moment around about the the one-hour 5933 so if they can keep it on that not get too carried away I think we're gonna see that that's the key point here is the fact that these guys are being held to that so we're not going to see a situation like for example a couple of weeks ago in the London Marathon when Mary Kotani went out really too fast in the first 5k and could maybe a finished faster had she not gone out so fast in the beginning they won't do that as we see a shot in white of less sisa deceased from ethiopia won the boston marathon two times he would like to be the man as all three would he would like to be the one to cross that finish line first Vicky chakana Mirta see an eagle s maneuver on Sarah pick each other to the rock Manitoba Canada Omarosa Cassidy one determines our victory one superb autism I cheated and educated and a removal and Waka visit alma mater no auntie Alisa he's a younger guy he has no doubt he can go in against a couple of good guys in the marathon and shake up oh you've really impressed us his attitude seemed righteous he's the whole package was then again numb what do you know Casey did you a new magazine would be political that running is my life you know he talks about running as his life the typical story that we often hear about African athletes he had a 50 to 60 minute walk to school when he was a kid and the story goes that he didn't think that was far enough and he would sometimes hand his books to some of his schoolmates and he would run a longer distance home so training from a very young age I think it's also significant that he's wearing a white jersey it's his favorite color but he's also he considers himself a man of peace after he won that 2013 Boston Marathon where of course there was the great tragedy of the terrorist act there he gave his medal back to Boston and the city really embraced him and it was a kind of change of life experience for him to be part of that story and of course he came back in 2015 and run the race again at what point did he really start to make an impact where people that are able to say this young man is has the potential to be amongst this elite group in the road well pretty much on his debut he came out and he he debuted in Dubai in 2013 and he ran 204 45 there and that still is it his personal best to this day he hasn't he still come back and he's won Boston which isn't always a racer that's about times there you know if you get a following wind it can be but it on the occasions he's running it hasn't been ideal conditions there so he definitely is capable of going faster than that to a 545 but to come out and hit it on your debut and then struggle to get close as that sometimes that can play games with the mind but it hasn't done that with him he's still very young we usually say what you hit peak the marathon around about 29 30 32 and pretty much where Elliot is right now so he still has a lot of margin to improvement to get even faster you know he's a little different from the other two his first running really was on the roads he ran some track and field at a very young age but he immediately went to the roads as Paula said went to the marathon at a very young age for the outstanding performance to start so the other two Elliot kept Rogge really burst on the scene in 2003 when he won the World Championships in the 5000 meters beating two legendary athletes HML gurus who won that event the 5,000 in the Olympics the next year in Kenenisa Bekele whose many considered that one of the greatest distance runners of all time and there's 18 year-old more or less unknown junior athlete came out and beat both of them that announced the arrival of of Kip Jogi [Applause] just a quick word on the piece now we can see that they've gone through the 10 kilometer mark in 2821 so they're actually up on that on the schedule now they've flipped from a little bit behind at the first five kilometers too ahead of schedule now and you can see that the places they're just in the next group just sliding back in and we're now back to the original group so they had what 27 minutes or so of recovery and we're back with the first three pacer groups slotting in and slotting him very well oh that's so cool that was I mean the manner in which they switched in and out it was it was it's perfect it's like they're running as one unit well there's a lot of thought that went into who would run win and Paula mentioned earlier the tall man in the middle they're number one on his chest as Chris Derrick he's probably the tallest of all of the Pacers and that's an advantage of course because he's he's creating more draft for the runners behind of all the places in the world that we could be for this race we are here at at Monza and there's probably a lot of folks at home watching around the world asking why what about this place caused the team at Nike to say there we have our best chance to make history there well the variety of factors and some of them in Paula had mentioned earlier it's inland so you don't have a big breeze coming off the coast it's it's only about 200 meters above sea level so there's no issue with oxygen very little elevation change in on the course itself the temperature as we said is perfect and as Paula mentioned the humidity is not a fact in this race so you take all of those factors the surface that Paul talked about earlier and of course I like the fact that it's got this history of speed which you documented the fastest Formula one time ever yeah one Pablo Montoya I think it was 2005 or so that he ran it you know that that's a history and a meaning which I think adds a little something extra yeah to think that right here whether these steps are happening speeds of 220 miles an hour on a regular basis well here's more on why we are here at Monza I think breaking 2 is possible if we have the right circumstances we'd spent a lot of time trying to figure out what would be the best course top and our book was make sure that the course is really flat we really wanted to focus on low altitude in addition to that cool temperatures are very important for the athletes as well as low wind that helps the athletes move through the air without having much resistance what we're really trying to do is create an awesome environment that allows the athlete to be as successful as possible and Monza is one really crucial entity to ultimately get them to be able to break the two hours follow the elevation change on this loop is only about ten feet total up and down how does that differ from from most Pro tracks most most marathon courses almost marathon courses will be not run on a loop course or at Championships we will run a loop course but it might be like three or four loops over around about ten kilometers so here 2.4 17 and a bit laps of a 2.4 kilometer loop means that it's a very controlled environment and everything can be perfectly controlled in terms the pace is coming out in terms of the guys on the bikes next to them passing the the drinks as we're seeing in the bottom corner there to sit ELISA and that can mean that everything is on site nothing can can be left to chance but these guys I mean we talked about the Formula one cars and they're perfectly calibrated machines the runners are calibrated machines as well so to be able to run on a no it's not manicured but it's one step short of that it is very very significant to them that there are no potholes that they might twist twist their ankle and there's no ups and downs that they need to factor in pretty much the only variable they have to think about is if any sort of wind comes up that's the only thing that's going to change out there and one thing that helps is they're in a forest they're surrounded by greenery and I went for a run here yesterday I put on the concept shoes and didn't run anywhere near as fast and certainly not as far but I I felt the cooling breezes that they're feeling now not even a cooling breeze it's just cool because of the of the forest that surrounds them the greenery birds were chirping and probably on the back stretch where there aren't a lot of people they can probably hear the birds chirping and it's a great environment all three of them train in beautiful environments for at least part of the year and they should feel very much at home here and that produces extra oxygen into the air as well so the fact that they have the trees the fact that it even rained like tiny little bit when they were warming up Haile Gebrselassie always used to say that he would have the tract watered and he liked it to rain a little bit before he would go out for a world-record attempt because he felt that that produced a little bit more oxygen into the atmosphere and he could just run that tiny little bit better it is so peaceful there's no loud clanging for the most part we was a small intimate group of fans that were brought in here specifically but this is it looks like almost a training run now obviously besides that the car in front of them and and the folks that are there helping them with nutrition and hydration but it looks like they're out on a training it does and I wonder is that significant because a lot of times when you come to a big race the crowd is a big factor I know when when I ran in London to have that huge crowd and the atmosphere behind you and contributing absolutely helps you to elevate it to another level and that's maybe the only thing that's actually missing today this is hugely significant to each of those runners there's no question about that but the actual only point on the course where they have a huge crowd there is when they come down through this at this area where we're sitting now and they'll come through the changeover zone and press the pit lane and the rest of the time it's very quiet out there so that does help them to get into their rhythm but I wonder also doesn't mean there's a little bit missing why do you think that this group ended up being selected this elite group of East Africans in particular now I mentioned at the top of the show the the history in Ethiopia of the marathon dating back to 1960 a baby by Kela who ran barefoot through the streets of Rome to win that marathon Kenya the tremendous tradition so in those two countries as big as global football is in the rest of the world or maybe baseball American football are in the United States running is equal to that in these in these countries and there's a a lower there's a history there's a respect there's an opportunity to earn a living and to change your circumstances that is built into the history of running in those countries in addition of course growing up at 7,000 feet or 2500 meters altitude also is helpful and you see runners from around the world who will travel to Kenya travel to Ethiopia to train to take advantage of that so they have a variety of different advantages that led them to be the chosen athletes who the scientists felt had the best chance to break this barrier yeah I saw that when I was in eat in Kenya last year there were mid distance runners and long distance runners from all over the world but there was something about what you're talking about meeting these kids who come from mostly farmer families and who make that choice to say if I do this and I take advantage of my surroundings with the mindset that I have in my culture I can take this to the next level and having those examples there were 60 athletes at the beginning to get to this three we'll learn more about the process of how we got away with Alisa Anderson a with the athlete selection process we started with scanning about 60 athletes where we could look at their past performances and start to load on down from there from those 60 we then identified about 18 athletes that we would then bring in the laboratory say let's put you through the full test and see what you're really made of we tested a number of different things one of those was what that path leads vo2 Max is so you can figure out it's how great their engine is another thing we looked at was how economical they are to run you can think of this as to your gas mileage it's how much energy are you expending to run at a certain speed out of those 18 or so we came to these three being close to or at the to our race no i alika juggies from kenya it's a world class marathon her he's 100% committed he's 100 cent confident in his ability to do this lisa diseases from ethiopia and he's most notable for his boston marathon wins he just kept going and going and going he definitely has the potential to do this there's two naked SI i'd really like search nay he's very fast he has to his physiology is exceptional they've all got different strengths and weaknesses for I'm excited about all of them they've got different characters personalities as you've seen it's gonna be fascinated to see how the story unfolds we just saw a glimpse there but it was very interesting to see the different levels that they were putting these athletes through even with the the treadmill that was specific and they make sure they had the right sort of weather conditions when they were even running on the treadmills every element of the preparation for this has been looked at and has been control and has been affected as much as they possibly can and I think talking to - Andy yesterday ever saying the biggest thing was that all three of these guys really bought into that because you have to believe that this isn't going to hinder your training that being strapped up to these machines is only gonna bring something to the table and bring something to how well they can go out and perform and absolutely every one of these three bought into that wanted to take on board as much of the science as they could and wanted to kind of look at all those little areas where that key difference can be made even if it's a fraction of a percent well that's really interesting that Elliott prior to the breaking tube project had never run on a treadmill he'd never had his vo2 max test that he'd never had his lactate threshold tested he'd never been evaluated for his running economy in fact he only rarely worn weren't a heartrate monitor so to your point this required a have changed in in just how he conducted his business of running and yet he embraced it because he saw the possibility to take himself to a new level and when we talk about the fact that we're we're trying to just shave off just under three minutes here but but to break this barrier it it really puts it in perspective and we see that this pays put in the context what what it's like at this pace staying this driven I think we can't by any means underestimate the scale of what they're trying to do here because it's a phenomenal jump you can look at it and you can think the world record sits at two 257 but to go under the two from there it's it's huge I mean it's it's that kind of six seconds a mile or whatever it is that they have to pick it up but that's a lot to be able to do that and they're really pushing everything and they need to maximize every little area around 13 miles an hour as we see them making their way through this right-hand turn we will check in with Kevin Hart who was with someone far faster than him I am with the man the myth the legend I'm talking about mr. Carl Lewis himself Carl this is amazing what we're witnessing here today yesterday I said you know what I want an experience I want to see how fast these guys are actually going so I decided to get out there with the Pacers because that's type of person I am I got a witness it myself so I got out there I got you know what I'm not gonna talk to you about I want you to see it first we got a clip of what I did yesterday can we can you show the clip to Carl please guys let's show Carl clip this is me I look amazing wait a minute hold on start struggle a little bit car keep going I don't even think they know that stop running that's how fast those guys are going who's Gaza they're like gazelles a lot of people don't notice about me but I I have asthma that's what made me slow up I don't have my inhale on me you got to take your head off to the runners I mean four minutes 34 seconds a mile that's booking those guys like the speed of light I gotta go find my Hill as you as you see Carl I might as Matic you saw that how much taller could you think you could have gone I can I could do the whole 2026 if I wanted to but I had my wedding ring on that slows me up yeah what did you think about my form no Carl I thought the form was good you know until you started to slow down you know but it's it's all you're clear when you decide okay maybe these guys go cuz you know I know you Kevin I watch you run yesterday and I know you have to let other people win some sometimes see that's what makes you a legend Carl you understand how to feed the ego we're nothing without the ego anything that you have to save me I mean listen the guide has done everything that you've done of course not only in the world of running but just in your career to see what we're saying today like do you are they any thoughts like what is your what are your concerns what do you think overall about this whole concept is that trying to break this record oh man I think it's amazing you know I when I look at what they're doing first of all you start like two years ago and you start thinking about I'm gonna do something in two years from now that's the biggest issue I can't be sick in two years from now or feel bad or anything like that and when you finally get to this moment you've got one shot right tonight to do it so when they started off I know it was it was exciting for them but also trying to keep your pace down get our sleep well last night was that too excited am I going out too fast gosh my stomach's starting to cramp but is that gonna be too bad there's so many things you're thinking about and in our races it was over in 10-15 seconds but they've got to do that time at the time is this step right because that one second could be over 500 steps and all of a sudden I'm firing two steps behind so there's a lot for them to think about stay focused for that for this two hours I can't imagine how marathons do it yeah I mean the only reason why I can't do it Carl I'm lactose intolerant so you know my biggest thing is my stomach my digestive system so I don't know you know what is gonna be like my thing is I am I gonna have accident you know that's the thing that's on my mind the most but we don't need to get into me and my system it's not about us it's about these guys out here today we're gonna continue to watch and hopefully witness history we're going back to you guys I'm gonna talk to Carl cuz I want to talk to him about breaking the speed of light cuz that's what I'm focused on it's a two-year plan back to you guys thank you Kevin in the midst of that hilarity Carl Lewis who was in our research meeting yesterday which I had I just had to like put that into perspective but he said something very interesting about that two years and and looking forward and what you need to have on that day as you see Lisa here I thought Carl said something really smart he said that a lot more can happen in two hours than can happen in 10 seconds here's Lalita and his training on this road [Music] take birdies but this fillet Sanchez did not fly but he created aeroplane now breaking too we're saying you know not only we're gonna bring you in here listen you're gonna break a world record on any one to two hours that's a crazy idea generation imagination heroin t0 comas on silicon technology in wanna da da da Adam sees on TV techonology Economo Antonio more detachable nylon releases being really receptive and very willing to try any suggestions that we lay out once everything will possibly give up and more blessed with I see indeed no channel well yeah maybe this is supported by science in the technology may be possible it says a lot when an athlete can say by myself maybe not really but did that buy in that you talked about Paulo of with releases own words about the science of technology to say hey after this experience yeah possible yeah it's that buying that faith in the team and I had to smile a little bit there on the clip when Andes they come on ELISA this is the best yet he says that every time but he's basically doing is building up the confidence and that's key to be told by the people who know by the scientists you know what you're in amazing shape you can absolutely go out there and do this and there's no scientific reason why you can't it's really up to you is the best feeling to get coming into it and these guys will feed off that confidence that they get from the team around them and from the way that they feel in training to really come in here and push their minds because it is as much about the mind as it is about the body out there today and being able to stay focused right in the moment and on one foot in front of the other on that pace and just keep focused right here you know of the three runners he's the one that had a little bit of difficulty earlier in the year with a small injury so you know the team aspect is important to him and he said that he sees keep Chow in today say as as friends you know no it's not cause some brothers and friends and that you know he really bought into not only the team aspect of the scientists and his own training partners but his fellow comrades there well you think about a sport like this that is so individual and these three buying into the idea that we're going to essentially be a team for a couple of years I'm trying to stay with the team here as I think we do have to point out that there is tiny bit of daylight opening up there and all of the three Lisa for me is is the one who's struggling first at this point it may be that he'll go through a bad patch and he'll be able to get back that happens in the marathon every athlete coming to the start line of a marathon knows and accepts there are going to be rough patches there are many rough patches within this race where I really need to go to my special place somewhere within me where I can kind of regroup focus get things back together and come through it and have faith that you will come through it because so many times in training you hit the rough patch and you come through it and you know you can come through it and come out the other side but it's keeping that focus through the difficult spots that he's going through right now how do you avoid finding yourself in a panic when you get to that rough that rough spot it's it's it's experience I guess and it's it's faith like I say that you can get through it but it's very hard I mean what's going through his mind right now is oh my god I can't stay on this I can't stay with that pace and that is the goal that I've been working to let's face it for a couple of years coming into this that's where I need to be and I'm falling back and that panic is really dangerous because it can paralyze paralyze your breathing paralyze your muscles and he's really really struggling and you know you mentioned that you have bad patches and you come back from them Luud but knowing a lot of times what runners are able to do in marathons has come back because the pace slows down and lets them back in the race we see this on the track sometimes the pace is not going to slow down and he knows it it's relentless it's going to continue and that's gonna make it very difficult for him to get back so at this point he not only has to run that pace he has to run faster than they're running to get back into it they will give him Pacers at some point to try to help him but it's going to be very very difficult yeah so they talked about that piece of strategy they have the 32 paces and I think they have 18 guys that are rotating as per the plan and then behind that they have another five or six seven maybe that may jump in now with Alisa that is dropped off but if another one of these two drops off they will move up and they will abandon the back guy because they don't have enough pieces to keep covering that the other float as if you like the other six seven paces are reserves in case there's any problem with any of the front 18 what we talked about at the outset how long they would be able to stay together at this pace see a shot of Elliott answers today those are they checking his watch they're just making sure that the big clock in front of him maybe he hasn't looked up and clocked that and then that's often happens I think a lot of times in big races you're just focusing on yourself and you don't not aware of what's around you well here's some perspective on personated SA and his training [Music] halacha sir his name was head and shoulders above everybody we tested and we didn't even have to look at the numbers I basically saw him on the treadmill and immediately he shines like a different character and the way he runs there's no question that he has the physiology is running economy is exceptional he do you look at his numbers on the treadmill and on the track you know he's you could argue is our best prospect - 10 11 12 13 14 15 excellent he's barely making any lactic he's barely breathing hard and it's world-record marathon pace there's a monster his numbers are nothing short of extraordinary and behold the half marathon world record not surprising at all what is surprising is that he was unable to make a great leap to the marathon I don't think that he really knows how much to drink how often to drink I think his deficiency is something that we can overcome yeah my to go about in my opinion is the dark force and if I were to Lisa or Elliot I would be very concerned if I come into the last mile which there's Nate to death saying [Music] now one of the major differences for him is that he trains by himself for half the year in Madrid away from his family note no particular training partners he's kind of on an island and he does his hardest workouts by himself which is really different I mean when you think about the large group that Elliot has in Kenya he's sort of quiet and mysterious which makes this all very interesting but you know mo farah a four-time gold medalist in the Olympic Games says that this is the guy he fears the most Wow yeah I think his potential is it's really there and it's really tangible and to be able to to have this opportunity now to get his fuelling strategy right and to find out because it's without question he is the best half marathon uh probably there's ever been on this planet but certainly that we have right now and it's that unique question of yeah as much as the science can save as much as they can say you're built for the marathon it's a unique beast and sometimes you can get it right and sometimes you just can never quite make that step up and it's it's that fascination I think for me that is so interesting what we're third and they can with the fueling can he really hit it and hit his potential at the marathon or is it just always going to be that that distance that doesn't quite fit in this blistering pace and being able to sustain that for not just a half marathon but for this entire marathon as we take a look at the Pacers at the front so here we get a look at exactly how that change over takes place there's a hundred fifty meters where in the first 50 meters the group exits that's in the lead other runners move up and then in the second hundred meters then three new runners come in I had a little worried about this when I first heard about it because I wondered that's a tough job to come into the race one at the right pace and to not to disrupt the runners behind them but so far it's gone very smoothly and it's not a lot of space no it's a short area and I was I was talking to burn it look at I'm not sure if this is him coming in now I haven't spotted him yet come in but he said that he was really talking to keep talking about this and saying you have to not because the instinct is when the first guys peel off and the next rope moves up your instinct is to follow them and move up for what they have to do and he said give a spaceman give a space to get in there because you need to leave us 2 3 meters at least to be able to slot in as that second row of paces and then to be able to get back on pace and that's what they're doing really really well because the actual race is here today the 3k it's a guy so now the two of them have not practiced this with the pace as the paces have been drilled over and over again but they didn't want to they said no just tell us what's going to happen so we're absolutely clear with what's going to happen but we don't want to actually practice it running around why do you think that was that the racers chose to say we'll leave it for game day I think it's prep I think it's the fact that actually the day before and two days before the marathon when the drill it was the Pacers have been drilling it so much you don't really want to be running too much at race pace you want to be resting as much as possible and saving every bit of energy for race day [Music] as we are just under the 1 hour mark and at the 2020 kilometer split so yeah 20 kilometers past through there in 56:49 and the pace has slipped back a little bit from that 159 30 they were on earlier but still predicted to go through on pace for breaking through that two-hour barrier it looks to me Paula that there sandy has had a couple of hard moments in his last lap he drifted back one time and you could say well maybe it was because they were gonna change the Pacers and he wanted to give them the room that you talked about then he drifted back again and now he just he just seems to be having trouble holding on obviously he's not getting the benefit of the Pacers at this point no he's not I think that's the situation we talked about when now he will get that draft of the second group of paces come in to help him but that significant daylight there and that's not intentional so he may be able to pick up and come back from that but it's very dangerous for him at this point in the race to be losing contact like that we saw earlier looking firmly in that group of the lead Pacers and that's what you talked about this second group here yeah so this is now this is that was the second group a quick shot of them with a delay so running but some of those will now peel off and they may split three and three and run a little bit with each of them as long as they both keep going but what they had talked about yesterday was the fact that they would focus fully on the second guy at this point we see Kip Choji he is looking strong again of the eight marathons that he has run he has won seven and we'll have a look at his training process over the course of this last couple of years [Music] sports team or if you are only one then you can do nothing but if you have more than one then the other two critics there was the sort of serenity when the Kenyans were training in particular keep Charlie's got this quietly dominant personality P just exudes class this with a pure vision and treating the adult respect thirty point I think Elliott is a well-oiled machine he's sharp he knows exactly what he's doing very intelligent he thinks a lot about the mind as well as the bodies were preparing his mind to be able to run this fast the forecast fully and pink was stifling right now we talked to Elliot he says I will break two hours absolutely comes out and says it I'll break it he's very confident because real belief in his own ability Eleonora passion is a choice you need to choose to be great it's not a chance it's a choice I love his philosophic approach to his sport and I mentioned earlier the sort of monastic lifestyle that he has its training camp where he shares a 10 by 10 room with another runner he pulls up water by hand from a well he washes his clothes in a bucket every day after he after he runs he's not picking you know he's not pretentious in any way this is a man who's a multi-millionaire based on his running but he keeps true to what has gotten in there and he records every workout over the last 14 years I like that last that last pota is that he says it's a choice and in the manner of how he lives those are all choices especially when the sport that you love has given you the opportunity to afford a lifestyle that goes away in the manner in which you grow up with it and last year when I went up when I wasn't eaten that was something that struck me about a lot of the runners they lived even the most successful for the most part lived in a very humble lifestyle to sort of stay in in that focus yeah and it's it's what works for them as well it's the way that they've they've grown up and the way that they know preparing enables them to go out and succeed in this and it's a choice but I think it's also a privilege for them to be able to to get this opportunity to to put everything into being able to accomplish the best that they can do and find out whether they can break through this barrier I think for all of us that have been lucky enough to take part in athletics and take part in the sport of running it's a privilege to be able to get out there and do something that you love doing every day and there's a passion for earlier as well he gets a lot of a lot back from running as much as he gives to the sport of it but he has a huge huge talent I think that's the thing that really struck me watching him when the London Marathon in 2016 then he absolutely has the potential to take down that world record officially and he's almost sacrificed is to just see really what he's capable of with the whole support that he can put in today and so he's fully committed to this because he really believes that he can be the first man to break through that barrier see he is the lone of the three it almost looks like he's it like he's running with the security detail at 13 miles an hour and to see the manner in which the sisa and to DES they have have dropped off it really it really puts in the context these are these are the best runners in the world and this pace has has gotten the best of both of them and they've been training specifically for this moment for two years not just underlines I think the enormity of the feat that they're trying to achieve here and we probably can't stress enough of that if you set a treadmill at the pace that they're running it now and you tried to maintain it most of us could not do that for more than kind of 20 30 seconds if that some of the the K paces out here at world-class level and they have had to train and really prepare Bernie look at was really nervous about am I going to be able to hit the pace and am I going to be able to to do it right out here today so to be able to maintain that over the marathon I mean when we're talking about the fact that Susan and annalisa have dropped off this but they've still gone through halfway in a pace that would win most major half marathons going on yeah I think you've said this a couple of times in it and it can't be said enough frankly which is to do what they're setting out to achieve we'll take a special day and Joe a monoid Samuelson said it that it'll have to be a rare day for one of these athletes where everything clicks at this point the only one that seems to have that chance is Elliot Kip Jogi yeah discussing it with Joan last night as well as she or she also said that there's one quote about this and that it it's possible but it's not probable so they have to go and really look for that really search for for that that possibility because it is about everything just coming together on the day and these guys are used to that that happens every time you step to a start line but this time more than more than any time before in their careers it really has to be perfect today there has been a time a second pack in the center there and slotted in right behind him focused just on his heels earlier it's just it basically hasn't moved from that position in that formation even when the the three athletes were all together he was very much the the alpha male if you like he was the guy who's controlling it's the way trains to it's the way he's used to almost without words dominating the group and getting them to run where he wants them to do and just focusing you can see his head it is barely moving and it is just absolutely in that place inside him focused on what he's aiming to do today as you see in that shot over the shoulder of yoga the scientists on the bike communicating looking at stop watches the science is really the key to this possibility at breaking to you prynt than anything that I've ever felt before could run fast in those what the athlete said paula was referencing is that they wanted the right weight not the light weight and that was that was the real insight that led to this Footwear being developed and the zoomx foam that's their returns eighty to ninety percent of the energy well when we say that every piece has been designed specifically for them you will see what detail we mean in this piece the notion of us doing what we're doing is a completely audacious idea and that was so inspiring for our design team from the get-go not only functionally but aesthetically you want zero distractions for the athlete you want the athletes to be able to run and not think about their Footwear you don't want the feed to her you don't want laces to come untied and the number one thing is comfort it you want it to be perfect for you so we're gonna chew every piece of product that we have whether it's a shoe or the power of the sock to make sure it's right for you these shoes are one to one for the athlete so it's completely individualistic this has grown through conversations with those three athletes leveraging digital design and data is a big big part of our design process will be scanning your foot so then we can adjust the upper here and then be able to send you or bring to you shoes and actually they've never really experienced that level of customization before yonder tuning on a pixel level we can control where they have comfort when they need containment where they breathability one of the areas that we personalize the product for the athletes was for them to be able to print on the shoes Zera Sanae ash for his wife's name to be unless you Lisa wanted the names of his mom and dad on the shoe and when we visited Eliot in January what he wanted printed on the side this year was beyond the limits people put limits on themselves or other people put limits on them and for him it's about we should all think about pushing beyond those limits and not just takin skin as we see Eliot couch okay still in the hunt of being beyond the limit in this lead group and we talked about this this track being here at Monza and you think about a Formula One team or a race team it's all about the details and they're trying to get these lower coefficients to just get just some little thousandth of a second less time when they're engineering the vehicles and to see that being applied to the - to an athlete in this level with the shoes and the clothing incredible you know no better expert than Kevin Hart said that the footwear looks like a spaceship for your feet and it's totally true and they these guys have as much behind them as it's possible to have at this day today in terms of the technology and everything like that and it's moved on hugely from where we were even 10 20 years ago in marathoning and in road running but let's not forget this is about the human insight there as well and as much the shoes are not going to break this barrier on their own it's all about the athlete trying to do it it's all about Elliott kyoki and that mindset of until I try I don't know where my limits going to and unless I really go for it and I really stretch I can't fail by finding that I can't do it I just find that it's gonna take me a little bit longer to get there so if if he didn't by any means fail today he learned something still and he can still grow from that and come back again but what he's absolutely saying is I'm just gonna take it to the well today I'm gonna lay everything on the line that I have and see am I good enough yet well that choice that he made to vote for what he printed on the shoe to go beyond the limits I liked what he said you know he calls as we heard the two hour barrier completely arbitrary so it could have been 1:55 as far as he was concerned you were to train for that if someone had had aimed him as preposterous as that sounds but you know he did take advantage of personalizing and he put his wife and children's names on the soft liner on the inside of the shoe so he's got the the message about beyond the limits outside and the family is all inside get a really an incredible glimpse here of this transition and he's really getting to be a pro at that dropping back and allowing the new places to slip in well there are some lucky passionate runners from around Europe that had the opportunity to be here today some of them camping out here on the grounds Kevin Hart is a man of the people is in with the people that's right I am a man of the people so it's only right that I come down and embrace and engage with the people I'm standing here with Cory and I'm with Gav's they're from London huge fans of running excited to be here I want to get some words from the people Cory what does this event mean to you thank you to me this is absolutely ridiculous as in we watch marathons happen out on the road we watch them happen on television but be here right here watching history happen is incredible to watch people run at this pace is ridiculous as in I couldn't even keep up something like this for a mile let alone a column oh yeah well you need to watch me run I'm a blur okay gabs talk to me right now okay from what I understand you're an amazing athlete you're from London as well I know Cora is a coach but I want to talk to you what does this mean how do you feel are you just as excited I mean yeah this is like our Everest it's insane just to watch these guys out here trying the fact that he's still on pace he's going for it super exciting real our friends which is also really fun camping out but yeah it's insane it's really insane you know it remind me to get you guys tickets to my next track and field event cuz I think you guys will be blown away just some of the events that I do it's the 10-yard dash I don't even know if you guys have it in the UK but I hold the record and the 10-yard damn whatever it's long story short this isn't about me okay it's about the event it's about making history and I'm glad we can have people like yourselves here to be a part of it this is really really dope and I think what's even cool is just how you see people embracing people that are about the sport that come and support that's what it's about it's not just about what you're doing it's about the support that you get while doing it history can't be made without support and get going if they got it I'm sending them back to you because we're gonna go back to doing we do best in that's cheering I'll see you later guys thank you blur we will not even refer to you as Kevin Hart anymore only blur it if you if you follow Kevin Hart on social media one of the incredible things he's done in the last couple years actually motivating his fans to come out and go on runs with him wherever he's touring in the country and it's a crazy he put something out on social media and thousands of people show up and he's got people running very very in spot inspiring so while he does make jokes about his running and blur he really is about that life as we'd say but this man Elliot kept show game is about that life look at the focus the determination in his face but there's also maybe it's just me that there seems to be eze despite what he's under yeah I mean he is the master at keeping as much of his body relaxed as possible and that sounds like a bit of an oxymoron how can he be relaxed when I need all my muscles to be firing at the right time but all of his facial muscles there's zero effort going on there's zero wastage of energy he's very efficient in the parts of his body that he can really kind of turn off and focusing on the parts that need to be functioning a quick update on the pace they went through the 25 kilometers in one hour 1103 which is projected marginally now under that two hour barrier that is exciting as we're at this 122 mark we've talked so much about these shoes we will show them to you now more in detail to see what it is that they are running on the origin of the footwear goes back three to four years early on we went down the path of issuing the ultimate lightweight racing flat that was the conventional thinking in marathon for work I'd like for you to try this on and see how it fits we pivoted after speaking to the athlete and hearing that concrete really hurts and if there was any way that we could cushion them from the ground that would be a big win but not do it with a weight implication and we started to create the product that you see today which is a big shift for American shoes and fast to show that you've been running in a field like toss up it is the foam is special because it's ultra lightweight and it's ultra resilient so you get better cushioning better particularly from the ground but still have the overall shoe be really light and then we have this plate as well with a very unique geometry it's a really a strong material it's a carbon fiber and so it provides added propulsion it's actually the system of this and the foam coming together that it delivers the magic in the process we were exploring some aerodynamic insights what we found was if you elongate the shoe you can actually reduce drag and that's what led to this elongated heel shape I don't it's good but they need comparison so if you could try these on just run around a little bit so what we believe we've delivered here is the optimal weight to cushioning to responsiveness relationship it was super special for me to be here in Monza and see Elliot across the line in the marathon test in the shoe it's emotional it's amazing to see that you know we've been working tirelessly for the last three years on this and to see it come to life and be used by somebody of that caliber in an event that's this audacious I mean it's it's a dream for a designer there's only a small number of these zoom elites available but you can get a chance to get them yourself you can log a 5k run in the night plus run Club app to be entered make sure you go to night comm slash just do it more information with the terms and conditions and we are joined right now by Edie Caesar author of two hours you're also a contributing writer for Wired I've been following a lot of your writings in the last couple of months this must be something special to be actually here witnessing this attempt it's crazy for me I imagined how this might play out and there's a guy that is 40 minutes away from doing the thing that I imagined and it's such a privilege to be here you did so much interesting work in going to Kenya and spending time with the greatest marathoners in the world you gleaned some real information and gems about what makes them so special at this distance they're training the kind of monastic living what were some of your biggest takeaways I mean I think this particularly relates to Elliot who's now who's now who's now running so fast and so well here he has built his he has built his career over a period of 15 years and he is built it slowly by slowly from the track to the marathon they've really really build on solid foundations there's nothing special it's just hard work well you mentioned coming from the track in one of the stats that really jumps out at me is that he's run a 350 mile in his career in fact his personal best in the mile is faster than the personal bests of matthew central it's the American who won fifteen hundred meters at the Olympics in Rio so that kind of speed it's unprecedented for a marathon yeah and you see it you know in the final stages of the London Marathon in the final stages of big city races he can really shift I mean what we saw in London when he was cruising down the mile just before the finishing line was electrifying as anyone who loves any kind of sport to see an athlete like that and really enjoying it as well big smile on his face and moving so fast I mean it was a privilege to watch that looking casual and the most not casual of situations I mean look at him now this guy is doing something that nobody has ever done before nobody's ever run a two-hour pace for this long and there isn't any strain on his face there's still a long way to go and a lot of things can happen in the last 35 minutes of a marathon as anyone who's run one knows so it's not a done deal but he looks good we were talking about the footwear and you had an interesting comment about the wearing the footwork is you've worn the prototype and some of your training lead you says it makes you feel as if you're on wheels not legs I just it's you rock forward in a very unusual way I have actually run around here in the in the in the shoes and they are they propel you forward in a really unusual way it's actually quite unsettling until you get used to it obviously these guys have had a long time to get used to it and I think a lot of good runners club runners you know hobby runners are going to get a lot out of them but they take a while to get used to it I'm sure now we see at the 30k he's just a a second over the desired pace don't project it to run the two hour marathon which is incredible as ed says that he's still holding this pace and there was a lot of chatter in the running world over the last several months about whether this was possible and people were giving different sorts of percentage guesses I think there's even a betting line in London on this and you know you were so deeply involved in this whole notion of two hours over the last several years right your your book tell me about the this moment now you were putting in a little bit of perspective did you vision this as the way it would play out I always thought it would take an event like this specialized events to do it and you know I thought of some things that you could try that the pacing strategy I think has been working really well here they seem to they seem to have been able to move the teams in and out very seamlessly but the way that I thought about it was that you would maybe want to do it much colder than you were doing it today and in fact a lot of the athletes would say actually they feel uncomfortable at those temperatures so is that there's a division there between what the science tells you and what the athletes are telling you but certainly it seems to be working at this point I I always thought it was an outside shot it's a hard thing to do it's a crazy thing to do and I still think there's a long way to go in this you know it's still an outside shot but there's one guy with a big chance I mean he's just taking on some fluid there and he doesn't look like he's broken stride or taking any pace off really he's still looking good I mean he may have slowed down slightly in the last 5k is that right just by a couple seconds one second one second how important is the hydration factor at this period of a race well this is the critical moment I mean the the last six miles of the race in this case you know the last 24 minutes or so 25 minutes you know the body it can can only go so far with the storage that it has of glycogen the fluids they there's you know some estimate that they lose two liters of fluid during the course of this two hours so if you're not constantly replacing that fluid and adding energy you're not gonna make it as Paul was saying earlier there was a there was a study done on Haile Gebrselassie at the 2007 Berlin marathon where he lost something like 10 percent of his body weight over the course of breaking the world record I mean that is astonishing you know the amount of these guys are sweating is crazy I just I think it's worth pointing out at this point that we are witnessing something special even if he doesn't do it nobody has ever done this and Eliot kept Chagos already shown that he belongs to a line of runners that starts with spyridon Lewis and goes through all the greats you know clarence de mar and boston you know guys like Zatopek this guy belongs with those those great names he's the the premium marathon runner of this generation and he deserves to be celebrated whatever happens are you know in the remainder of this race I think he deserves to be celebrated because he's trying this you know in some ways the easier decision might have been to go to London force again where I felt and I'm sure you were there last year I felt that he was surprised when he saw how close he was to the record had he known what pace he was on he would have been able to break the record the world record in London as we see him at at 30k one of the amazing things of his races in London particularly his first victory is he was running paces about what he needs to run today in the 25th and 26 mile and and he's you know we've talked about how hard these latter stages of this effort are but the fact that he was able to run under four minutes and 40 seconds per mile towards the end of his London Marathon races is significant when we think about what he's got to do here well that's that tells you something but it's different running those paces when you haven't run them in the first 24 miles to doing what he's doing now is it possible that he's just slowing a tiny but may that maybe they're losing a couple of seconds here and there I mean it's definitely they can get it back but they're just slightly outside slightly outside to ours but it looks like they're pretty much keeping a rock-solid pace you know talking about pace there was a lot of discussion before about what the optimum way would be to run this right since that both world records Paula Paula Radcliffe record on the women's side and the men's world record were set with negative splits where people ran faster in the second half of the race than the first half and here the decision was to run in even pace now you know there was some controversy about that there was some thought that maybe the physiology suggested that you should run negative splits but the psychology said you had to stay on this pace from the start yeah I think I mean there are various schools of thought all of them come down to a round even pace so you can be slightly negative or slightly positive but you're gonna come down to a round even pace otherwise it's you know it's impossible to do it as we all right now we're in 32 minutes here five laps to go just under five laps what what are the factors here in this last stretch of the race what can go wrong the wheels can come completely off - to take the metaphor that Ed had used in describing the shoes as feeling like wheels yeah this this is the toughest part of any marathon I don't care who you are you mentioned your own experience and you know he's left he's left no room for himself right he's put it out there on the line he's run the pace that he was asked to run and he's in completely uncharted territory as it said no one has any idea what it feels like to be at this point now he does have one data point which is when they'd ran a bit of a test run here and he ran a 59 17 half marathon afterwards they said how did it feel he said oh I was running 60% effort well if 60% effort got him to 59 70 maybe he can be at this point at the race and still be feeling pretty good I don't know he looks good right he looks strong and then his face hasn't lied the entire time edy thank you so much for joining us hopefully we will be we will be toasting history and we'll take an another look here at what we've been talking about this importance of this last seven kilometers the marathon is 42 kilometers in the last seven kilometers are extremely difficult the body has undergone pounding pounding on the joints pounding on the legs and the mind just wanders I don't wanna do this anymore I don't really want to complete this marathon that's really when the energy that's stored with inside your muscles is gone away so that's why if people don't take on nutrition throughout the race they get to that point and they just got nothing left to use a running term they'll bonk you have to pump your arms you have to move your torso you're just doing everything you can to keep one foot hitting in front of the other your body's screaming stop your head screaming stop your minds can you stop everything's telling you to stop the mind will take over and say body you must keep going I'm gonna venture over the wall see what happens and we're gonna go for it as we are joined now by Alex Hutchinson from runner's world and Alex as Ed Cesar just pointed out in this moment right now at this mark we are in uncharted waters yeah every step they're taking now this is the fastest of humans ever run so it's pretty cool at this point you've thought a lot about the science of this you've written about it tell us exactly what's going on with him now what's his body feeling and what's his mind thinking yeah there's there's this is the area where physical the physical challenges of the marathon become unique so even though we're a little bit chilly standing here he's probably heating up he's an engine he's an engine running hot his fuel even though he's been drinking every few kilometres he's his fuel stores are running low and his leg muscles are getting damaged and this is one of the factors where maybe the shoes are gonna help him avoid some of that damage but mentally - I mean if you play a video game for two hours you'll be exhausted these guys are trying to Elliott at this point in particular is trying to keep his finger in the candle flame for a very long time how much did his training helped him get to this moment because I know that he's run 40 kilometers on a regular basis at 7,000 feet 2500 meters of altitude at times you know running around 223 marathon pace does that specific training get you ready for this moment yeah there's no substitute for for feeling the specific pain you're gonna feel you can't fake it so you can't protect yourself from muscle damage unless you've experienced that muscle damage that that repeated boat effect means that if you've experienced it once it won't be as bad the next time and mentally too if you haven't been there you won't be ready for the punches that that the marathon is going to throw at you we saw earlier in the piece that on Elliot Cottrell gay he talked about how much this is mental for him it starts in that mental space more than it is physically and how much does that really come into play in this type of a moment yeah I think it's been really fascinating to hear Elliot's comments over the last few months saying that it's really about belief that he chooses to believe that he can do it and you know I think we're learning scientists are learning these days the role that mental fatigue and motivation can play so he he's clearly very strong in the mine and you know if you if you sit and talk to him there's this aura of confidence and calmness that it's not it's not a put-on he teamed up he believes he can do it and that's going to be crucial over the next point it's it's funny used the word aura the first time I met him there was this sense about him that that there was a charisma about him as an athlete was just prior to his victory in Rio and you know calm is the word that I would use in the face of what was going to be a very challenging marathon in the heat of Rio here of course a different sort of challenge and we see him trying to hold on to the Pacers yeah well it looks like we're getting to the real crunch time and you know as for that aura it's really interesting to wonder what you know which came first it just what does winning the Olympics give you that that calmness that you can do anything or do you have to have that before you can even get to that stage as we see they're almost lapping ELISA wooden boy laps to go and you know what I identified as maybe him slipping back really was him giving space for the Pacers to come in and he's really become an expert at facilitating the pacing strategy making room for those Pacers to come in and then getting right in the key zone so that he could take get the best draft off of the Pacers and I'm really impressed with how well the Pacers were sticking together they've run each each section they've kept in a perfect arrowhead and that's something that wasn't so so well executed back at the rehearsal in in March so the Pacers are doing their job and now it's now it's up to Elliot and that was a learning from that practice and that's one reason the group came to Monza to sort of pick up pick up that learning and we talked about earlier that while there is pacing in some of the major city marathons a lot of times it falls apart it doesn't provide the shield from the wind that the the runners would like I I'm interested in his in his training because the continuity that he's had with the same coach Patrick sang through his entire career and the philosophy that they have which they call progressing slowly by slowly really struck me that they're very very conscious about taking rest days and that you can't run at your every day in fact you should never run at your 100% maximum in training yeah I mean obviously we've heard so much about how on their easy days they go easy but even on the hard days Eliot is one of those guys who always has another gear and I think that's the you know that's a real differentiator that he's not racing his workouts he's using his workouts as a way of getting faster and then when his coach tells him run this fast that's how fast he runs he doesn't do it as a challenge to see if he can go faster you know a lot of people were getting very focused on the notion that this race wasn't on a specific day it might have been today might have been the next day might have been the day after all because of weather considerations and they said to him hey doesn't that isn't that difficult because you don't have that one date to focus on and he was very nonchalant about he says my job is to train and make sure I'm fit and I'll run when they tell me the race is gonna take place yeah he's been very trusting in the process he's through you know any of the details you asked me he says look I know what my job is and I know what their job is and I'll do my job with under 20 minutes or so to go to possibly witness history what would this mean for running in the world is this moment yeah you know I think we're gonna we're gonna find that out it when it happens because there's so much I think there's been very few people who really believed it would happen and here we are 20 minutes out and it's it's within range and I think people are gonna be processing it for a long time trying to understand what just happened if it does in fact happen and and how does that translate into other major marathons will there be learnings from this that they can take and say you know what we're gonna start having an arrow head pacing formation or we're gonna change our start time or we're gonna take something from this to try and go faster and we mentioned the Bannister analogy earlier you know after Roger Bannister ran sub for minutes it was only a matter of days before someone else did it and of course over time many many people have done it literally over 2,000 people have done it so it just it was a Galen Rupp who said it just takes one time to give the world the belief that it can be done and that belief as well as some of these technical aspects can really push the boundaries and continue to push the boundaries of marathon oh yeah and interestingly bet you know the year before Bannister broke the four-minute mile he'd he did a race where he had a Pacers just like here jumping in and out that got him very close and he what he wrote later is the decade in the belief that he could do it the next year exactly rant 402 I believe that that in that race now they're been analogies to the the moonshot people have used that or trip to Mars and I think talking about the product that you know what people don't remember about going to the moon was it it did all sorts of things in the Fiat in a variety of fields right it accelerated the development of the semiconductor it miniaturized computers they even created freeze-dried foods for the astronauts to take and I think this attempt to the point you were making earlier has done the same thing it's accelerated the development of apparel of footwear of some of the thoughts about how to run faster whether it be the pacing strategies or other things so regardless of what happens in the next sixteen minutes or so those those are those are there to stay those developments are there to stay yeah and I think there's been a lot of people have had dreams about this kind of thing that going back to the early 90s when people started talking about could someone run us up to our marathon and here's some of the things you could do this is the chance to see the ground truth this is to sit to find out do these things helped enough of course it you know the other question will be how much of it is that Elliot kept Jody is just a you know once in a lifetime are we witnessing something that that no one will be able to do for another generation or is are there some other things that other people will be able to follow this is truly incredible from where we started in the dark this morning there was some light drizzle there was some fear that perhaps some rain would make its way north that didn't happen we've seen this this incredible pace and we are on the brink of history in seeing this two-hour mark broken the fastest marathon ever run mr. Hutchinson thank you so much for joining us hopefully we will to be celebrating with you shortly and we will throw it down to Kevin Hart oh you know I'm sitting here and I'm in all I'm in all what I'm seeing I'm in awe at the fact that history is about to be made I mean ladies and gentlemen I don't even see if you guys if you're not looking at the time look at the time it looks like this will be done I mean this this yet you should make noise noise should be made I want us to really understand why this is happening it's because I'm here my essence is in the air and I have put that essence on this track in return they are taking that essence and pushing themselves to the limit what I'm saying is that Kevin Hart makes everybody better okay so you over there I'm throwing all you guys some of this Kevin Hart you take it you take it and I want y'all to throw that Kappa heart that I just threw y'all you thought it on the track let's push these men to greatness today we are pushing them to greatness we are here and we are breaking - it is unbelievable we're coming down to the finishing marks stay with me I'm excited you get excited [Applause] I think that he felt the essence of blur I saw Kip Jogi take that from you Kevin Hart as we have two laps ago we are joined now by sheelane Flanagan four-time Olympian chalene what's it been like for you witnessing this as we get closer and closer to this being reality I have chills and not because it's chilly outside I am just so inspired right now I have butterflies in my stomach I am just descending all my energy to Elliot and the Pacers to execute right now I can't believe I'm here I feel very lucky and very fortunate to be here to witness this day well it is amazing history no matter what right he's currently projected to run just over two hours two hours and 10 seconds at the moment there happened some moments where it looked like he was having a little trouble hanging on you were down at trackside they think they did have you gotten any sense of his rhythm and how he's hanging in there with the Pacers so from my perspective in general he has just looked in that Zen flow of state I have seen a little bit of wincing I couldn't tell if it was smiling but I think it was a little bit of wincing unfortunately his body language though from the start and even now even just falling off just a little bit his body language is that of just having still a lot of control when we had that Caesar up here earlier you made a good point he said no matter what happens even if we don't see this this two-hour mark broken this has never happened before this opens the door to to what is truly possible yeah with each step that he's taking he is breaking history which is phenomenal to think about as an athlete I hope he's appreciating right now I know he's probably having to rally mentally he's going to that place he may have a personal mantra today to get him through the rough patches I know I do when I have marathons that I'm preparing for I have my go-to little sayings to kind of get me through these rough patches but with each step in each each moment he is making history regardless when we talk about putting it in perspective and we talked about it earlier that to go from 206 to 202 57 took about 16 years so if you just project that forward and that that world record was set in in 2014 it would have taken to 2030 to get under two hours and to break this barrier runners world did a study they they crunched the numbers and they estimated they looked at 10,000 marathon performances that it would take until 2075 to break two hours and so the fact that he's he's close he's so close right now to that two hour barrier it's just sort of opens the mind of human potential how does it motivate you as an athlete you know to think about him taking on this challenge it's the fact that he has made this commitment and he may not achieve this goal but the fact that he has stated that he wants to break this barrier and he wants to be the man I think it just shows every person not even just the runners and athletes that everyone has a to sub-2 barrier and in their life and whatever they want to achieve and so I think this inspires people to think what is my sub to and how can I start to dream and think bigger than I thought was possible so he's going to inspire millions of people today so I in these last stages of the race this is really where the mental toughness comes to play I think right now knowing that he's the last athlete is really tough to not have you know the the competitors around him he's just locked into the Pacers this is the the toughest part mentally and when you think about the fact that they really prepared for this together and they've been on this journey together for the last couple of years as much as he wants to be the one to win he is also running for them he is he wants to be the guy he wants to there's a lot of people when athletes step to the line that support them and I think in these moments they are thinking about the people that have helped them get to this point and they're drawing the energy in trying to exhibit this is giving thanks to the people that have helped them what about the job that this pacing team has done today which has just been seamless and these look to have just put their all out there yeah they've delivered and over delivered you know the the system needed to be perfected and that's why the test run taught people a lot about how to how to make it run the fact that these runners disrupted their racing calendars to come here and be part of this effort I think speaks to how the running community and leave runners feel about the importance of this effort who's to say that one of the runners in the pacing group might one day be chasing the two-hour barrier themselves and what I love is you hear the chatter out there you know people talking among themselves encouraging encouraging them to sort of keep it going encouraging him to stay with them and you know here it comes I mean we're coming up now to one lap to go as to whether history can be made and and this is where it's really important to talk about the fact that in the London Marathon he's run sub four forty miles in the last two miles because that's that's what he's facing now is having to deliver those kind of performances as as he comes up to this last lap and you could hear the the cheers from those remaining Pacers they're at the 10th they were screaming at the top of their lungs for him there everyone here is very invested and especially these men pacing these athletes they feel as much a part of it as anyone they're very much invested they want to be say that they helped this effort today and have dreams come true I have those butterflies my skin is starting to stand up and I can can feel it all throughout my body as we are knocking on the door of history here in our last lap but reality reality is setting in he's now at 2 hours 19 seconds expected time and he's gonna have to deliver an elliot Kipchoge kind of finish he has been a finisher in his career whether it was his track career where he won that sort of groundbreaking 5000 meter victory at the World Championships as an 18 year old showing incredible speed at the finish or his marathon victories where he always finishes with a flourish he always has something back but something left but imagined the strain at this point having gotten this far and having you know less than 2.4 kilometers to go what he's got to rally and pull together as you see here he still looks very collected but every now and then you see a little bit of a winds and I'm wondering if he's he's feeling like he can pull together a big last effort in the big in the last lap here you know he's expressed his love for the marathon I mean you know he says that marathon is his life it's a big journey every time you run and he says you feel a lot of pain but you think a lot of things to get past that pain and when talking about this attempt he said you know the gap is psychological and clearly it's not only psychological at this point he's gonna need to use his brain to will himself physically to stay with these guys and to get to that to to our barrier how hard is it to dig deep for that extra that that extra more at a time like this it's exceptionally hard you know I've had my coach before say Schilling why can't you just take a little deeper come on it's there but there are limitations to the human body but your mind this is the crucial time where it has to override those signals where the legs are saying please please slow down and it's hard to ignore when your body is telling you that it does not want to move faster but knowing that he has about five minutes left of running that's what I do I break it down into how many minutes I have and so if he knows if he looks up at the clock and he says okay I've only got five minutes of running you know Eliot you can do this and think back to his training and all the tough moments that he's gotten through this is the crucial time to use draw from experience and he's been put in this situation many times and he has come through with huge huge performances so right now see his eyes and I was getting bigger he's taking those last bit of fluid I imagine right here and hopefully sometimes when you take the last a little bit of fluid you get a little energy surge get the sugars in your mouth and you can almost rally and feel a little bit better after taking some of those fluids so this is incredible is down to four minutes now or less than four minutes of running you know you talked about this and and and people wrote about it people literally wrote a book about it and and here it is it's within his grasp and as you say occasional grimace almost an occasional smile on his face he's still in that Zen state you know I wondered if the fact that it was not competitive would make a difference this guy but among everything else that he is as a great athlete is a fantastic competitor and the fact that it was running for a barrier not running to win would that make a difference but he seems to still be competing out there and I that's why I still think the possibility as he's now slipped to two hours and 23 seconds for the projected finish time I think it's still possible because this is a guy who has finished time and time again with great speed and you can see those different moments in his face where you guys you mentioned before sometimes a grimace and then all of a sudden it looks like a calm smile in the midst of the fire and looking at his like turnip army that's perfection right there as I mean it he's graceful and beautiful even though he's hurting so bad his form is not breaking down it really is a beautiful piece of artwork to watch him run you can see the Pacers turning around cheering them on very much invested in this you know he'll see the finish line from quite a distance when he comes around the turn and and that's when you know his natural tendency to finish will come in into play I don't know if there's enough room left to make up what is the distance that he'll have to make up and now he's about 27 seconds over the projected finish time of or the goal of two hours but when he when he looks up and sees the finish you have to think that there'll be a spring in his step when we arrived here this morning it was in the hopes of witnessing what was possible what is possible when you take an idea of a barrier that has not been crossed before what is possible if you just give it a try and he now can see the finish line and you saw them pointing encouraging him everyone alongside urging him on in a way it's a victory lap because what he's achieved is extraordinary two years in the making me on this journey he started as three with Lisa to sisa Anderson entered si and now Eliot Jogi with the Pacers still encouraging him to dig deep and he's trying he's trying to sprint here which is incredible you can see him go to his arms pulling him up higher I call him the sprint hands this is as much of a sprint as anything right here that you'll see on the track [Music] an extraordinary effort [Applause] he still looks so incredible I can't I can't even fathom right now and helping the finish line tape is Joan Benoist i am lesan and Allyson Felix both of them barrier breakers in their own right and there's the school jogging the intensity in his face in that sprint never forget that his final time is two hours and 24 seconds today we found out what else is possible at the official world record - OH - 57 this will not count for record purposes but what it did do was show humans what is possible in this event and this man did something incredible that will will last forever well I'm inspired to go run today I don't know about you guys but he spoke about it being a mental journey more than it was physical and in all those pieces we watched and Ellie Krypto led coop shoka is with Paula at the finish line now I think is gonna have to go on a little sprint to chase them so obviously you just want to thank the guys for part of the team that is really being around you here today but I just want you if if you can cuz I know what that's taken out of you to try and put into words because the world has only just learned about the target you've been working towards for for two years and you really laid everything on the line there and you broke some huge barriers I mean you smashed the world record so you have to believe going forward now that you can go and officially do that two hours 25 are you already thinking about that 25 seconds and where you can make that up next time thank you thank you all the pieces are actually keep our energy and our minds 12 you need to go all through this journey over two kilometers but actually the second which is a particle agency I hope next time it's supposed to fire humans ran under and under to do our luck but I'm entranced and hurt but I'm happy to have Ernie in America it's a phenomenal achievement and a very inspiring performance we saw a lot of you on the screen and we could see the screen if you like of your face but behind that the emotions going through your head can you try and put into words how you felt on the last lap when you could see the time ahead of you and what you were aiming for my mind fully was under two hour but in the last two laughs I was a little bit tensor concern yeah in the schedule and the last level is also a little bit beyond this gate you learn a lot was ran out of my mind this this changes in code it has been hard it's a it has techically seven good months of preparation of dedication and everything but I'm happy to obtain them and I think this history in the notice of sport I think you've made history today and you've inspired so many of us and we've seen a glimpse of what is possible so back to you in the studio Greg one of my favorite things I heard that he said was when he was talking about the Pacers he said thank you for lending me your bodies and your minds yeah you know we can't emphasize enough we've talked about it many times today that this was a team effort it started from his own team his coach who's been with him since literally he was a boy his training partners and and then the group that became part of his family the other runners and the scientists who worked with him and guided him and he listened so carefully to as we look at him with Sandy Bo Decker who started the race and and envisioned in many ways this attempt and pointing out that you know this this is this is what makes it special I think it's what makes this sport special it's a global community and and Paula said it really well that that the whole world was behind this and supporting this and wanting to see what was possible as we see Zeus addicted si who hung in there that that that initial group stayed together for a long time yeah he's going to run his personal best by a few minutes so I think the the strategy of training specifically for this of the fluid intake which had been a problem for him in his some of his marathon attempts he didn't do what he wanted to do which was be side by side with Elliot Kip chogi but he's going to come away with a personal best at this distance I think having prepared for this event will only elevate his marathoning career for the future I think these athletes learned an incredible amount of information and information about themselves and what's possible and I think sir Sidney had some of the most to learn and I think from here forward you're gonna see just better and better marathons well as you said to be able to under these circumstances run his personal best that's a huge takeaway moving forward I think everyone is always very grateful to finish a marathon as you see him appreciate the fact that he is done right now a moment with the scientists who he's come to know over time and and he's embraced their advice and and and as Lane says changed his prospects at this marathon distance yeah we talked about that that buy-in for someone who very fluid was something he didn't even think about really as being important as we see the Lisa de sisa being brought up by this last group of Pacers but him having to take that that full buy-in to change the whole manner in which he prepares with all the questions that we had as to how the the pacing system would work and that the in and outs of the switches there wasn't one moment in in which they did not go perfectly smoothly as executed it was a flawless production and it was beautiful to watch how seamless it seemed to flow and as an athlete it's always you feed off of the energy if the flow is good and there's no altercations it just keeps the heart rate down you stay relaxed it was the execution today was beautiful and I love the camaraderie of the Pacers and you saw in the home stretch when they were urging him on and they felt so much part of this effort and they were they were a critical part of it I had dinner the Pacers the other night at the hotel and they seemed I walked in and I was like well this is a running camp essentially with a bunch of men and so it was about you know 36 men there and having dinner and they seemed to be having a really good time this week together [Applause] what a moment it is for Kip chugga and also a lot of these fans who came from around Europe to have a chance at that witnessing this moment it's a very intimate setting that we're in right now so to be able to go up and hug Eliot right now and touch a piece of history what an honor to get a high-five from this man today or sign some shoes those shoes are gonna have to get a security detail I think he's writing beyond limit and they're gonna make just as much noise this this crowd when deceased it comes across that finish line here's a two-time Boston Marathon champion it just shows how humbling the marathon can be on certain days I call it the marathon gods and sometimes the marathon gods are with you and sometimes they're not and the Lisa put forward an unbelievable effort today and but it's the last 10k is very very hard no matter what you could see that he was laboring in his stride I noticed early on he was perspiring much more than the other athletes today and so to me that just a sign that he was maybe working a little bit harder sooner his jersey was sticking to him whereas Elliot's was flowing a little bit differently so but I noticed about 50 minutes and he was having to work harder than the other athletes and when when those running gods do come for you in the middle of the race and you know that it's going to be a long struggle what what is that like when you have to sort of yield to it and there's nothing mentally left that you can do to get past that it's it's a very tough position to be in I have been in it and I think I just focus on you know just focusing on each step forward in forward momentum and looking forward to maybe something as simple as my next fluid station something to get excited about and I think about the people who have helped me get here and sometimes the day is just about finishing that's just how the nature of the sport is in this distance it's very humbling we're at the two-minute two hours and twelve minutes mark in just about 400 meters to go and I think this moment speaks for itself I mean this is one of the best runners in the world they viewed with a 204 marathon two time Boston winner and I think Shelley makes a fantastic point about what this distance can do to you it makes it actually puts in perspective what Elliot could shogi achieved they all set out with the same goal today they all were seemed to have the potential to do to become the first sub to our marathoner one guy came so close and for the Lisa to sisa the youngest athlete of group the future could give him another shot it's certainly the hardest way to run a marathon when you're going out at two hour pace and it's not your day it's extremely hard you've gone in a hole and you're in the tank and then you're having to claw your way to the finish line just because you have run so exceptionally hard for the first hour like he already did and lots of respect to him for finishing the race would have been very easy to drop out [Applause] I think we're gonna see some really big things from Louisa in the future here I think there's a lot that he's learned from the scientists and from this training and he's the future we will allow the athletes to gather themselves and may get some recovery and then we will have a actual award ceremony for today and we will recap this race and what an incredible morning that it's been has been an honor to be here with with you guys and and and witness this and to think that we were out here in the in the dark and there was all this energy of the unknown at about 4:30 this morning and to come so close to nothing on that door of the breaking to but now to really find out that there's a whole lot more that is possible so my question is well this opportunity exists again that's what I want to know as a fan of the sport I want to see another attempt I know it's probably too soon but this was so inspiring and so incredible and I feel like we are it's you can taste the sub 2 and today shows that we're very very close so I'm curious to see what will happen in the future as we await these athletes getting prepared for the award ceremony how about we take a look at some of the highlights some of the key moments from today first off we'll start with the Pacers and you know we've we've said that several times this was the complicated part of this race we knew that shielding the runners from from the wind giving them a pocket of protection to run in was going to be incredibly important it was a bold plan that was executed perfectly and you know the the love and care that these fellow runners showed for the three men that were making the attempt was really special and those transitions each one seamless athletes ever got caught up with it with each other it was perfect [Music] it's a perfect position and place to be tucked in right behind you're getting the energy off of the other athletes and it's very motivating and inspiring to feel that energy and that flow here you see waving him on encouragement throughout the entire race keeping the moment light even in the greatest moment of struggle towards the end of the race and you know he did pick the pace up over over the last part how he managed to do that I don't know given how his legs must have been screaming Jeb annoyed Sanderson holding the tape you know herself an incredible barrier breaker first woman to win the Olympic marathon set multiple World Records in the event and it was great for her to be there at that moment absolutely she set the stage for inspiring me in my career and showing what's possible so whenever I'm dreaming of a big moment for myself I think of the women before me and having the opportunity to have to do what I do and what I love what's your takeaway for you I know you said you're excited to go and run the day but moving forward what what's your takeaway having my own mental barriers and trying to dream really big dreams and not having putting any limitations on myself and what I'm capable of I think it showed that these athletes committed to a pace that they've never run before and raced at and so why can't I go back home and say you know maybe my barriers a 220 marathon so what does that pay so it's - it's 5:19 a mile so I'm gonna commit in my training to try to always run 519 a mile and maybe I can break through to that barrier well several people said it you know that this translates to all runners and in fact all people that's what barrier breaking does and we talked about some of the great barriers in in the history of running and one of the early pieces talked about other great barriers 500 home runs for example or 100 points in a basketball game those are out there and and someone having achieved those those in the case of baseball many times or in the case of of a hundred points in basketball only one time but it's still there it gets people something to shoot for and and that's a lesson for life in the sports that I've had the privilege of coming from in my career in in snowboarding in skateboarding and surfing there's a lot of these moments that have never been done and when an athletes had to work so hard for a trick that people have thought is impossible like tony hawk's 900 or travis pastrana when he did the double backflip those moments shifted and changed the entire sport and made it possible for people to add on to that and do more they wouldn't they were never the type of moments where they were one and done it literally opened the way for people to really find out what's possible it's it's I feel the same kind of moment in right now as in getting to witness those so so right now we talked about the body being depleted at this finish line what do you need to do to get rehydrated well they did a great job of hydrating while they're on the course they got fluids more frequently than in a major marathon so but there still is going to be a loss of water weight so they are now trying to get warm again they will be sipping fluids it's a little tough sometimes the stomach is not happy after marathons so you're sipping water and trying to get it back in but it's not necessarily the first thing you want to do so it's just refueling the tank again and most likely they will be going through some drug testing now so there's they definitely need to get the fluids and so that they can produce a sample when we talk about the contributions that this effort makes you know one of them will be in this in the fact that these fluids were personalized they studied the athletes I know Paula was talking about they put put them in in controlled conditions running on a treadmill in certain humidity that would try to mimic this they saw what kind of body weight they would lose through through fluids and then we see it's excuse me Craig the Pacers making their way across the printer to the finish line all of them given the chair to keep chugging and that's the Brotherhood we talked about [Applause] truly was a global effort today and to see like you said the camaraderie and just how much they care about one another and they're inspired by the three athletes who are making this attempt and I think a lot of these athletes are gonna leave inspired by today's effort and bring it back to their own training and hopefully they have some great performances this year based off of you know when I go to media marathons I get inspired even if I'm not racing and I go home and I come back to my training with this new sense of purpose and and vigor and I believe the athletes here today that help pace will I think step up their game and their training that smile there wasn't one time today that they didn't look like just a unified unit everybody wants a piece of this history to them lots of pictures being taken right now I was there and they'll be able to look back on this moment and say I was there and I contributed and this is really a contribution to the future I've really believed that you know we'll be able to see whether it's a year or a few years from now look back at this moment and they'll be able to say we were there at that turning point where we contributed to the acceleration of the drive towards the two-hour barrier whether it is a year or or a ten years right remember some thought it would take until 2075 to to achieve this barrier and he came so close in 2017 we talked a little bit about it in the beginning of the race the the the specialty of their unique running styles amongst these three and we'll take a look at this right now how would you break down the differences in the way they move I would say Eliot for sure has a flow his postures pretty much perfect he he his likes her like a little sewing machine up and down up and down but Lisa definitely has a little bit of a turn in the upper body torso but I think the important thing when you're analyzing athletes is what did they look like from the waist down paula radcliffe the world-record holder for the women has a different upper body kind of twist but if you look from the waist down she's perfect so that's the most important component and it's all about efficiency and trying to change someone's form is very difficult whatever kind of running form is innate to them is the most efficient in a sense you don't try to change someone but yet they you can tell them apart by their running form for sure the three different athletes but part of the science of this was to find three of the most economical or efficient runners even if they're formed were different to show lanes point they were very efficient as runners not wasting energy and then benefiting of course from the many different advantages that they were given whether it's the apparel that they're wearing or the footwear for the Pacers or the or the or the course [Music] you see there's an a there when you when you've had this kind of day where it's been challenging what's the what's there the moving forward recovery like this is a crucial time to get like we were talking about be hydrated if they've lost some water weight getting a meal in at some point I like a good juicy burger I don't know what these men will be choosing for tonight but it's all about getting warm again as well the muscles there's been a lot of breakdown and fatigue and muscle damage so you'll be watching these men walk around very gingerly stairs are marathoners worst nightmare but because there had was not a lot of course elevation changed they potentially will recover faster however it was a very fast pace so that will do some damage to the muscles they were an uncharted territory and I think in xur sanae's case he'll go back and he'll evaluate how he felt how he prepared how he felt he should be happy with a force for minute improvement over his personal best but he'll look for the things that didn't go well for him today and think about where he goes next whether it's to the very comfortable half marathon distance where he's been dominant and is the world record holder or does he take another shot at the marathon to see if he can take what he learned here and move to the next level of sheelane set and as you said that that four minutes is not some small deal to knock off your personality celebrated for sure anytime even if it's a few seconds a PR is a PR and that's a special day it's the fastest you've ever run and you could never take those for granted so to celebrate it is necessary today and I'm I love the the way the Pacers are just just relentless making sure we get all the documentation necessary at this moment one sec as we are on standby for our official award ceremony in about seven minutes or so again this morning when we showed up there was there was some light drizzle and there was some rain to the south of us and there was a little bit of a buzz around here that it might make its way north you could see people a little bit stressed out and as soon as that Sun rose I mean we couldn't ask for a better day this is perfect running conditions and I even think I've heard that the extra little moisture in the air from the rain is actually great for the runners it actually a little more oxygenated and so I can't imagine better running conditions when I woke up this morning unlike me and this is setting up to be a perfect day no Paula was talking about that effect of the rain and it harkens back to the 1968 Olympics when Bob Beamon had his incredible long jump and there was a torrential downpour just before it and many people thought that they the negative ions created by the the storm contributed to his breakthrough performance and it was only a light drizzle here and and and wasn't of the same magnitude but we definitely had just perfect conditions and and that's all speaks to the research that went into choosing this place at this time and and making the call to go forward with the race maybe with a little bit of uncertainty about whether that rain would come in and it was clearly the right call and of course the the choice of here at Monza you know this this perfectly flat surface and taking advantage of this track and the athletes not having to think about potholes and and and things of that nature and really getting to try and test this technology in it has controlled it and close to perfect setting is possible to try and break this barrier seize their beautiful pictures because you see you see what he went through and and and we commented during the race sometimes he appeared to be smiling sometimes he appeared to be grimacing but he was always had a sense in control and he would get himself back on focus on tasks in his own yeah there was more than one moment where you could see him literally choose to smile and put himself back in that state there are my teammates Andrew bumble oh and Chris Tarek the Burman Track Club and they've been here all week preparing with Lopez along and certainly will be a highlight I know of their year and will fuel their training when we get back to work back home in Portland Oregon this was a very nice little workout for a lot of these men today when I asked them how they were feeling about coming out to pace they said this is gonna be a good hard workout you know if they were a home in Portland preparing this would have been dubbed as an extremely hard effort today just for training so you know this fit nicely into their training plans this was a great hard workout for a lot of these athletes today and as you look outward from the Pacers and the scientists and the doctors and and so many people behind the scenes and in this day that has really been planned for two years and in trying to say what happens if we apply the science to the best athletes in the world and give them a shot at breaking this bear wind is the obstacle anytime you're having to move to air the body has to overcome that air resistance aerodynamics is important because you could either modify the apparel and allow you to move more quickly through that air or you can help displace that air by having either a body or some other object in front of me when we shield that basic win with people the body needs less energy so the goal is tall big individuals who can run fast we want to emphasize with you the importance of having the Pacers be very close to each other so usually you don't have the benefit of having people to draft behind to the entire distance you might have it may be till halfway but then eventually you're on your own and that's one of the reasons why people slow down later on okay guys we've lost another pacer so can we communicate to the car to be really cautious on this back straight these guys are the fastest in the world to have other people try to even do half of it at the same speed has been really really the biggest challenge is staying in formation but also not tripping nobody's ever tried to facilitate papers like that in a marathon don't overthink it keep it really simple helping me the best they can be you won't be alright and we got to see that applied in its full form today challenging the aerodynamics as we are on standby for this final award ceremony and we talked about his incredible career in the sport of track and field first seeing his current coach Patrick Tseng running in the tea fields as he said when he was a little boy of 8 years old and watching the man who became his mentor and guide through his career go on to win a silver medal in the 1992 Olympic silver medals and world championships in the steeplechase took him under his wing gave him equipment that allowed him to start progressing through the sport and then at age 18 winning a global championship in Paris France the 5,000 meters beating legends in the sport and he said you know I want to spend 10 years as a track and field athlete and he went on to win medals at Olympics and World Championships at the 5000 meter distance before saying ok now I'm ready to take on the marathon and he moves to the marathon has immediate success he went seven of eight marathons only losing one a marathon where the world record was set winning the Olympic Games and then taking this challenge on and and what a fantastic career and he's done it by consistency working with the same group of people leaving his family during the week and travelling to a training camp where he lives in a very simple a simple way shares the duties of cooking and cleaning the bathroom now withstanding his global status as one of the greatest runners of all time and then embracing this challenge and going so close to breaking that barrier but I think it's Elena separately well inspiring now whole new generations of runners well we are going to honor this day this really historical day and who better than to make the awards presentation and it's someone who has broken all sorts of barriers the one in only nine time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis for the presentation hello athletes well first of all I it's a pleasure to be here I'm so excited because there there's so few times in life when you can be a part of history and today it was history you know 63 years ago Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile and when he went out to do that people said it couldn't be done it could never happen but he actually was a visionary and he made it happen so a couple of years ago all these athletes decided to be visionaries they said we want to try to go for something that no one's ever even thought of not just tried or done but no one's even thought of so we're just so excited that they took it beyond anything that any human being could have ever imagined you know Nike always says that everyone's an athlete so today we saw the greatest marathon of every athlete on earth 7 billion people you know they change the perception of what people can do and if a team comes together not just the athletes themselves but coaches people that are in their backstory every single person that did took to make sure this wonderful day came and you know it was nail-biting right down to the end and where it's just so so close because we were going to try to break the two men to our marathon I almost said minute because I only think in second but I'm just so excited because that's what I want to do it I want to get to all the athletes and I want to just just want to reiterate how important this day is because we're gonna look back and all of you're gonna look back at this moment because this was the first real attempt and no one even thought of trying it and now when this happens someday they'll look back and say man it all started today in 2017 so whether you're running your first mile or just walking you're a part of that story that we went for today now I've got some great athletes that went for the impossible that we're going to honor today and I'm going to start with our third-place gentlemen the Lisa come on up on stage [Applause] [Music] okay now let me tell you something I'll keep it going cuz he could take his time he just ran for two hours we are on your schedule there we go there we go hey I'm not seeing y'all in it what are we doing over here come on well you know you know I'll tell you something so so while we're waiting on the Lisa to come up when when you know when Elliot went into his last lap and it was so close we were just everyone was sitting here saying is he going to be able to kick at the end or what's he going to do or how is he feeling I was sitting back saying drop your arms and Stroke it's time to stroke now because it was it was so exciting but but when you have a race like this isn't it amazing how you can go for two hours and it's just chilling for two hours waiting for an inevitable because you know me being a sprinter I used to run down the track in just ten seconds and I would try to figure out how can I just get one one hundredth of a second or a tenth of a second to win a race and then when the race is over I would go back and I say what did I do if I didn't win it I didn't run my time what did I do where did I make that one mistake and it was only over ten seconds or less they had two hours to think whoa what was that step wrong or what did I do at this point so the concentration and focus knowing that you're not just trying to win a race because you're going to just win a race you're just out there running against the people so when you get into the lead all of a sudden you could settle in and you get comfortable it's like wow I've got it I'm looking back and making sure I'm looking at the finish line but when you're going after a record when you're trying to be an inventor of something that's never been done before your mind never stops focusing on being forward think about that even when it's great still going forward and what we're going to do is we're going to start with our first gentleman going forward good Lisa come on up yeah up here yep yep here take the steps up here [Applause] congratulations congratulations so I just want to ask you a question am I waiting for someone to help me yeah come on dude he ran two hours and you can't get up here before him help her brother out here so so when you decide to take this challenge was the first thing that came to your mind okay I was not feeling very well back in January in February so probably I always saw that I wanted to do this race however due to less training and it ended up what it has today well you're you're the youngest right here the young exactly competing today what what is that like based on lack of experience but you've also had a lot of success and what that antenna yeah kalila - yeah nice elegy and now we gonna get our gihan Silesia McRae lean on each one journey to reach a total of less evil because they get a value subtle wrote anomaly as well Timothy no Lenny homicide in arcade and voila what if it's true sir ah lovely a swallow so we wrote a cello in his I wrote a Louisville over the facility I have achieved and what I can do to the circumstances of my two months illness it would probably had an impact on the result however I still positive that I could do much more than what I have done today well congratulations ok ok we're not finished we're just getting started so next we are going to bring up sirs na [Applause] [Music] congratulations so let me ask you a question so how important were the Pacemakers for you today yeah I would like to first I'd like to thank you for making say thank you most importantly chief Joe Cahill and he's very fast for this because we are happy together in the face so actually I'm very happy even for the feature okay so so let me ask you what did you learn what did you learn out of this whole experience I mean the last few months and preparing for this that's going to make you a better athlete in the future okay of our democracy have no margin see in tactical yeah we are training these races this project so actually to seek something it's good for me I mean for the future Murata this is my best time well great congratulations let's get our shot so guess what we had a we had a chilling finish a blistering pace and it's amazing for someone like myself to watch the speed of an attempt oh of the of the running for such a long period of time and it was so riveting and here watching this saying I think we're gonna get it I think we're gonna get it it was so close but guess what we did get you all witnessed the fastest marathon run in history Elliott come on up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay when we saw your video you said I want to win you said in your video I want to win and you look like you were determined from day one you were focused and you were there and it was close all the way to the end just a few seconds so how do you feel about your rate you tell me how you felt about your race ooh this journey has been really long journey that's been seven months but with Tereus I feel good but the that we write in curly cat attacker but I am a happy man to run a marathon in two hours so I think that the world now is just 25 seconds away [Applause] all right I don't think there's anyone here that doesn't believe that you can make up that 25 seconds and so are you right now thinking in your mind like where where am I gonna make up that 25 seconds because I know I can do it where in your mind do you think you can make up that 25 seconds because it's just a little bit Oh uncle to smoothies today you are help tomorrow you are bound and I can say with the perfect mind and effective training I believe in good preparation and good planning if you attend that and in distant if I have seconds we'll go okay well first of all I just want it I want to thank Nike because it you know I've been around a long long long long time and this is amazing for me to be a part of this today this historic day to see the fastest marathon ever run congratulations Eliot and let's take our picture [Music] [Applause] okay give him a round of applause again gratulations now back up to the booth up here and you heard the fastest marathon ever run and you heard Eliot Kipchoge say with perfect training and preparation preparation those 25 seconds will be gone I agree he said what I loved the most was it wasn't about him actually he said the world is 25 seconds away which is just very meaningful to me it's not just about him it's about inspiring the world it pulled the whole event together I think that comment that it was about the it's about where the world is the world now sees that it's only 25 seconds away and again let's let's pay homage to what you started with two and a half minutes faster than a man has ever run the marathon before we saw that today it was a special day truly an honor to get to to be a part of it with you guys and for all of you at home that that chose to tune in from around the world to witness this history so close to to breaking - we we've turned the corner I believe that we'll see this in our lifetimes but this was really really really something special I think there are athletes sitting at home and around the world and they are inspired now I think it's gonna be done yeah as you said earlier what's your two-hour mark in whatever it is in life what is that barrier that you would like to break from Monza my name is Sal Masekela on behalf on our entire crew thank you for tuning in - breaking - [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you you

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Published: Sun Mar 25 2018