What's amazing is he barely had any pacing/draft. They were dropping off like flies. The last pacer was running next to him before he dropped and Kipchoge kept having to direct the pacers to stay in front of him.
He is an absolute gentlemen of a human being from what we can all see. A lot of us could learn a lot from someone like him with regards to his attitude and approach to life, not just running.
Kipchoge had drafting for the entire Breaking 2 attempt, and this run is only 1 minute 22 seconds behind when running under his own power in the final segments of the race. AND, the biggest takeaway is that HE CAN RUN FASTER as seen by his last 2 kilometres. Amazing strength, amazing mentality, amazing man. Never did I think I would see such a big jump in the marathon WR. Completely changes the rules (similar to the sub 4 mile), and I have never been so giddy. I am just SO EXCITED for the future.This gives me lots of inspiration for my first marathon coming up in October. Hoping to break the 3 hour mark, fingers crossed!
This really resonates with me Sage. I’m trying to break 19 mins 5k and I think the big thing holding me back is the fear of failure. Need to stop limiting myself and adopt the positive attitude of ‘can do’ and start taking steps towards my goal. Thanks Sage - another awesome video
See the pace you need and hang in there for dear life. If you ain't feeling tired at 2000m, you ain't racing, you're just playing. "The best pace is suicidal pace".
Yeah this rings true! I have been close a few times (19:05 last year) and it was always a case of go out hard and try to hold it when i have PB'd in the past. I always seem to struggle in the 4th KM for some reason. Maybe a lack of endurance I'm thinking? I can run a mile in 5:28 so I definitely have the speed - just need to learn to hold it for longer I guess
Getting ready for "the last sprint", slowing down to go all out in the last km. Don't do it, maintain speed and do the last sprint anyway. Heavy breathing in 2nd km, burning chest in 3rd km, asma attack in 4th km and 5th km is just pain from the inside. With time pain becomes background noise tho.
Thx for the motivation! I was accepted to run Boston in 2019 for the 1st time! I owe much of this to you. I've been a subscriber for about a year. Keep the information and good vibes flowing.
Hi Sage I ran the Berlin Marathon this weekend. It was my first marathon and I wanted to thank you and your girlfriend for all your training advice on your channel. Your training methods helped me a lot to finish the marathon distance for the first time in my life. Thank you and coach sandy. By the way You should consider running the Berlin Marathon at least once in your life!
The hardest thing for me to do was break 40 min in the 10km. Until I did it once. That mental barrier was tough, then all of a sudden sub 40 was my norm in a race.
@@phildurre9492 the ability to accept the suffering to break through an imaginary barrier.the realization I could do it let me to continue doing it. I certainly didn't get magically fitter.
a fan of both! respect to special K's athleticism...and to sage for so quickly throwing his salute...i'm not in the least surprised that sage is completely supportive and without a hint of inappropriate jealousy for a fellow competitor's success.
I started running Jan 1, 1978 (3 miles /day for that year) and set ALL my PRs in 1981 (15 miles / day for that year). 1/4 mile: 66 sec (so I could pace Eliud for 400 meters!); Mile: 5:18 (in a slightly up-hill 4th mile in my PR marathon); 78 sec / 1/4 mile pace for 1/2 Marathon; 2:39:04 (6:04 pace) Marathon. i.e., I was never very fast. Otoh, boy did I train for distance / stamina. I ran a total of 262,220 miles (the equivalent of 10,000 separate marathons) over that 36.5 year period; with 4 years of 10,000 miles (28.5 miles a day for 50 weeks). My longest week: 301 miles (43 miles / day for my 43rd birthday). My two longest runs: by time: 6 hours: 48 miles (that same week); by distance: 62Km on my 62nd birthday (7 hours mountain run).
If I'm not mistaken, last 7 out of 10 marathon world records were run with a negative split. Also, Eliud* Kipchoge. I really like how you touched upon the mental aspect of running. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in all the parameters and numbers.
Thanks Sage, loved your take on this. And I think this is exactly what he (Eliud) wants us to away from his performance. He is quite inspiring, so thanks for helping spread that inspiration!
Hi! I was there in Berlin and run Marathon also! Have also made my personal best :) Weather was perfect and Eliud was fantastic but very very calm! Regards.
12:12 I like the quote. Was about to reply that it was Churchill who coined it, though it was as you said Theodor Roosevelt (in his speech "Citizenship in a republic" in 1910). Churchill said he has nothing to offer for the British people than "blood, toil, tears and sweat" after becoming the prime minister of Great Britain in May 1940, preparing his people for German air raids and food shortages... Kipchoge really is a humble man. As far as I know, he actually never said he will beat the World Record. Prior to the race he said he is hoping for a fast race and to achieve a new personal best.
Great insight Sage! I know from experience that a team structure can really help your competitive mentality for sure. I'd love to hear a breakdown of your thoughts on how his training for Breaking2 could have helped him break the official record. It seems to me that training with drafting, pacers, etc. is a similar concept to assistance band training in weightlifting. Applying that concept could be a big break through for the training of elite endurance athletes.
Training for my second half marathon now and finding it really hard to get into a training groove. Life stuff keeps coming up (dental surgery, work issues), minor injuries (flare-up of plantar fasciitis) and just feeling extra sore and tired after my longer/harder workouts. I keep missing workouts because I didn't get up at my alarm. Anyway, I definitely need to get into the right mindset if I want to complete my training and do my best in the race. Thanks for the motivation!
He's pretty much running the marathon at my 1000m time on a track. Actually there's an hilarious video where they set a threadmill at his breaking 2 attempt and film people falling off it almost right away, for the most part.
Sage, long time viewer & subscriber here. Thanks for this great video. I, for one, WOULD be interested in you doing a video where you dive into/analyze the physical side of Kipchoge’s incredible marathon performance. Would you consider doing so? Thanks from Portland, OR! -Tim
Hi sage, watched a few videos of yours before I ran London marathon in 2016. ( before that this pear shaped body had never ran, did raise a lot of money young children) I haven’t really got back into any real training and a lot of my training has been lazy. But also Iv been feeling a lot niggles and pain in my knees. Have you got any advice to motivate me.
Sage - Kipchoge's method is to run 30K and then 12K for him the race begins in that last 7 or so miles ... so it is naturally set up for negative split 😉
Hey Sage, love all your videos. I wondered if you could put a recently uploaded section at the top of your youtube page. To see if you have a new video you have to click onto you and then into your videos tab. It's annoying because youtube is very unreliable in terms of telling me when you have a new video, so I contantly check. After catching up to this video its telling me you have 2 new ones right now. You and Sandi keep me motivated on bad days!
So what are your thoughts on what he is capable of? Like you said, him negative splitting AND running the last 2k sub 2:50/k makes you think he could go out in 60:30-60:45 and run around 2:01 flat just off of pacing alone. Also, what do you think is the ideal temperature for him to run the marathon in? I'm thinking that upper 50s-mid 60s like it was this year is like 10 degrees hotter than optimal. If he got paced at 60:30 for the first half and the race started at 48-50 degrees, I think he could easily run sub 2:01, maybe even close to his Monza time.
Just to be clear, I'm pointing this out so Sage doesn't miss out on any of the SEO score this video could have: There is a *typo in the video title* :)
And honestly talent like Kipchoge is quite normal in Kenya. So that is why I predict his wr falling soon especially with the financial rewards accruing to the next wr holder. I think but not sure that Kiptanui will surpass the wr. And I never said it will be easy but rather an inevitable conclusion.
Kipchoge's wr of 201 38 will be surpassed either within next year or 2020 at the latest. So long as you have more than a few Kenyans and Ethiopians running half marathons in under 59 and marathons consistently in the low 205s. It is a foregone conclusion that 20138 will be surpassed soon.
Hi Sage ! I have a question i'd like to hear a talk on please. I just finished the sydney marathon on september 16th. ran 2:54:48. BQ by 20 minutes. now that there;s six months left until Boston, where do you start training again? when you're already in marathon shape, where do you begin training again? could you please share what you do ?
I LOVE your videos Sage Canaday. You actually inspired me to make my own running/ fitness/ workout training channel to try and help others the way you do and document my journey to runnigna mile under 4:30! I'd appreciate some feedback or support from anyone that would like to check it out! peace
yes it is. back here in kenya, EK is always in seminars discouraging doping i really don't think he uses epos. hope they test him as much and as random as possible
@@mwangi766 its unlikely in any sport that the greatest of all time has never used performance enhancing drugs when most every elite beneath him has used at some point. I feel like the anti doping is really more for PR, to allow the federations to respected worldwide, to allow athletes to get sponsorships and to mitigate the number of amateurs who would attempt to dope and hurt themselves. Otherwise doping should just be allowed since pretty much everyone uses anyway.
@@Isaiah_McIntosh nah watch what Haile Gebrselassie said about doping.. He said if you dope, the people of your country will lose all the respect they had and you'd rather die after
Do you think Kipchoge is doping Sage? As a clean sport athlete yourself I would love to see what you think about this I for one don't think he is based on his personality. If someone is doping they have personality flaws that shine through eventually and he doesn't have those flaws in his personality.
He sounds so jelaous, why don´t you try to beat if your an ''profesional athelete''. Thats Kipschoge deserve so well, he sets the limit for those ''professional'' that runs only for the sponsorship money.
um, why do I sound jealous? I have no idea what you are talking about. This was meant to be a celebration of Kipchoge's mental attitude and how it helped him achieve is goals...and what we can learn from his approach. I apologize if you think I was coming off as being critical but that was not the intent.
Do you mean envious? Of course Sage is envious as hell. I would find it strange if any professional runner were not envious of Eliud. Do you wish you could overcome your perceived limits?
"It's 90% mental and it's 90% physical and 60% of the time that attitude works everytime." - Sage Canaday
That's my new training philosophy 😂😂😂
I loved this too hahaha
thats a golden alright.
Thought I heard it wrong LOL
"It's not about the legs; it's about the heart and the mind." - Eliud Kipchoge
We can all agree in one thing: Kipchoge is a running beast
Or he is a goat
What's amazing is he barely had any pacing/draft. They were dropping off like flies. The last pacer was running next to him before he dropped and Kipchoge kept having to direct the pacers to stay in front of him.
He is an absolute gentlemen of a human being from what we can all see. A lot of us could learn a lot from someone like him with regards to his attitude and approach to life, not just running.
Kipchoge had drafting for the entire Breaking 2 attempt, and this run is only 1 minute 22 seconds behind when running under his own power in the final segments of the race. AND, the biggest takeaway is that HE CAN RUN FASTER as seen by his last 2 kilometres.
Amazing strength, amazing mentality, amazing man.
Never did I think I would see such a big jump in the marathon WR. Completely changes the rules (similar to the sub 4 mile), and I have never been so giddy. I am just SO EXCITED for the future.This gives me lots of inspiration for my first marathon coming up in October. Hoping to break the 3 hour mark, fingers crossed!
Nehemiah Weldeab good luck!
Did you break it?
Kipchoge will be the first to break 2 in the marathon. Mark my words the guy is a machine it’s ridiculous
Alien this comment aged well are you from the future?
We'll...
@@kelvinb3956 ikr haha
This really resonates with me Sage. I’m trying to break 19 mins 5k and I think the big thing holding me back is the fear of failure. Need to stop limiting myself and adopt the positive attitude of ‘can do’ and start taking steps towards my goal. Thanks Sage - another awesome video
M S same as me.but for me is fear of injury!
See the pace you need and hang in there for dear life. If you ain't feeling tired at 2000m, you ain't racing, you're just playing. "The best pace is suicidal pace".
Yeah its a fine balance sometimes isn't it @haidir wasli!
Yeah this rings true! I have been close a few times (19:05 last year) and it was always a case of go out hard and try to hold it when i have PB'd in the past. I always seem to struggle in the 4th KM for some reason. Maybe a lack of endurance I'm thinking? I can run a mile in 5:28 so I definitely have the speed - just need to learn to hold it for longer I guess
Getting ready for "the last sprint", slowing down to go all out in the last km. Don't do it, maintain speed and do the last sprint anyway. Heavy breathing in 2nd km, burning chest in 3rd km, asma attack in 4th km and 5th km is just pain from the inside. With time pain becomes background noise tho.
Been waiting for this vid since the world record! Thanks for the analysis Sage, Kipchoge is a beast!
2 hour barrier is no longer a barrier! He did it!
Thx for the motivation! I was accepted to run Boston in 2019 for the 1st time! I owe much of this to you. I've been a subscriber for about a year. Keep the information and good vibes flowing.
The amazing thing about Kipchoge is that he was smiling in the latter part of the race when most mortals are giving up the ghost.
Hi Sage I ran the Berlin Marathon this weekend. It was my first marathon and I wanted to thank you and your girlfriend for all your training advice on your channel. Your training methods helped me a lot to finish the marathon distance for the first time in my life. Thank you and coach sandy. By the way You should consider running the Berlin Marathon at least once in your life!
I believe that his experience of the breaking2 event broke Kipchoge's mental limit of what he thought he was capable of.
povang yes it did not
Great talk. The more I run, the more I am amazed at what I am capable of.
The hardest thing for me to do was break 40 min in the 10km. Until I did it once. That mental barrier was tough, then all of a sudden sub 40 was my norm in a race.
Ian Loughead how is that a mental barrier?? you trained until you got in shape, thats why you can now run under 40 min. congratz btw
@@phildurre9492 the ability to accept the suffering to break through an imaginary barrier.the realization I could do it let me to continue doing it. I certainly didn't get magically fitter.
I am still unable to break the 40min 10k barrier. That will be one heck of an achievement
Congrats Ian, you are so right knowing how to suffer and get through tough workouts is the key
how long had you been running before breaking 40min/10k?
a fan of both! respect to special K's athleticism...and to sage for so quickly throwing his salute...i'm not in the least surprised that sage is completely supportive and without a hint of inappropriate jealousy for a fellow competitor's success.
Wow! Putting his speed into perspective in terms of your prime PRs is INSANE!!!
I started running Jan 1, 1978 (3 miles /day for that year) and set ALL my PRs in 1981 (15 miles / day for that year). 1/4 mile: 66 sec (so I could pace Eliud for 400 meters!); Mile: 5:18 (in a slightly up-hill 4th mile in my PR marathon); 78 sec / 1/4 mile pace for 1/2 Marathon; 2:39:04 (6:04 pace) Marathon.
i.e., I was never very fast. Otoh, boy did I train for distance / stamina. I ran a total of 262,220 miles (the equivalent of 10,000 separate marathons) over that 36.5 year period; with 4 years of 10,000 miles (28.5 miles a day for 50 weeks). My longest week: 301 miles (43 miles / day for my 43rd birthday). My two longest runs: by time: 6 hours: 48 miles (that same week); by distance: 62Km on my 62nd birthday (7 hours mountain run).
Well said. Being relentless and not giving up keeps me after it. Thanks for the video.
If I'm not mistaken, last 7 out of 10 marathon world records were run with a negative split. Also, Eliud* Kipchoge.
I really like how you touched upon the mental aspect of running. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in all the parameters and numbers.
Thanks Sage, loved your take on this. And I think this is exactly what he (Eliud) wants us to away from his performance. He is quite inspiring, so thanks for helping spread that inspiration!
This video is so inspirational! Thank you for all the awesome content/ podcasts--across all platforms :)
This is one of my favorite videos sage. Keep it up!
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
Sage, congrats to you for making it to the Great Final of the Golden Trail Series!
Looking forward to your Ring of Steel race vlog.
Hi! I was there in Berlin and run Marathon also! Have also made my personal best :) Weather was perfect and Eliud was fantastic but very very calm! Regards.
I think the quote is “Blood, Sweat and Beers” lol
ha ha!
"I like half of you half as well as I would like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
12:12 I like the quote. Was about to reply that it was Churchill who coined it, though it was as you said Theodor Roosevelt (in his speech "Citizenship in a republic" in 1910). Churchill said he has nothing to offer for the British people than "blood, toil, tears and sweat" after becoming the prime minister of Great Britain in May 1940, preparing his people for German air raids and food shortages...
Kipchoge really is a humble man. As far as I know, he actually never said he will beat the World Record. Prior to the race he said he is hoping for a fast race and to achieve a new personal best.
I was waiting for this!
Thanks Sage
Anyone else coming to this video after he smashed it again? :D
Would like to hear another recap! LD
Love this video! I’ve watched it at least three times.
Bravo, Sage...super video ! Greets from Serbia.
Great insight Sage! I know from experience that a team structure can really help your competitive mentality for sure. I'd love to hear a breakdown of your thoughts on how his training for Breaking2 could have helped him break the official record. It seems to me that training with drafting, pacers, etc. is a similar concept to assistance band training in weightlifting. Applying that concept could be a big break through for the training of elite endurance athletes.
This applies to running and to life.
Training for my second half marathon now and finding it really hard to get into a training groove. Life stuff keeps coming up (dental surgery, work issues), minor injuries (flare-up of plantar fasciitis) and just feeling extra sore and tired after my longer/harder workouts. I keep missing workouts because I didn't get up at my alarm. Anyway, I definitely need to get into the right mindset if I want to complete my training and do my best in the race. Thanks for the motivation!
He's pretty much running the marathon at my 1000m time on a track. Actually there's an hilarious video where they set a threadmill at his breaking 2 attempt and film people falling off it almost right away, for the most part.
Hey Sage! I bought a pair of Hokas this week and name dropped you in the store. You converted me!
Thanks Sage. Great stuff as always.
Sage, long time viewer & subscriber here. Thanks for this great video. I, for one, WOULD be interested in you doing a video where you dive into/analyze the physical side of Kipchoge’s incredible marathon performance. Would you consider doing so? Thanks from Portland, OR! -Tim
Thanks Sage!
thanks for watching!
Hi sage, watched a few videos of yours before I ran London marathon in 2016. ( before that this pear shaped body had never ran, did raise a lot of money young children)
I haven’t really got back into any real training and a lot of my training has been lazy.
But also Iv been feeling a lot niggles and pain in my knees.
Have you got any advice to motivate me.
Running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
Charles Meadows so if i think about running fast i only have to run 50% of the distance or 10%?
Sage - Kipchoge's method is to run 30K and then 12K for him the race begins in that last 7 or so miles ... so it is naturally set up for negative split 😉
💚😂
Anyone can accomplish what they want in life. All you have to do is to be disciplined and be consistent.
Eat your words Sage, you said this was not possible
Hey Sage, love all your videos. I wondered if you could put a recently uploaded section at the top of your youtube page. To see if you have a new video you have to click onto you and then into your videos tab. It's annoying because youtube is very unreliable in terms of telling me when you have a new video, so I contantly check. After catching up to this video its telling me you have 2 new ones right now. You and Sandi keep me motivated on bad days!
Thanks Sage!!!
So what are your thoughts on what he is capable of? Like you said, him negative splitting AND running the last 2k sub 2:50/k makes you think he could go out in 60:30-60:45 and run around 2:01 flat just off of pacing alone. Also, what do you think is the ideal temperature for him to run the marathon in? I'm thinking that upper 50s-mid 60s like it was this year is like 10 degrees hotter than optimal. If he got paced at 60:30 for the first half and the race started at 48-50 degrees, I think he could easily run sub 2:01, maybe even close to his Monza time.
Just to be clear, I'm pointing this out so Sage doesn't miss out on any of the SEO score this video could have: There is a *typo in the video title* :)
Thanks coach!
Just to put things in perspective, 4:38 per mile pace is like a strong ride with a mountain bike on flat ground, 21st gear.
Insane
How old were you when you ran your first marathon?
And honestly talent like Kipchoge is quite normal in Kenya. So that is why I predict his wr falling soon especially with the financial rewards accruing to the next wr holder. I think but not sure that Kiptanui will surpass the wr. And I never said it will be easy but rather an inevitable conclusion.
Good message
Kipchoge's wr of 201 38 will be surpassed either within next year or 2020 at the latest. So long as you have more than a few Kenyans and Ethiopians running half marathons in under 59 and marathons consistently in the low 205s. It is a foregone conclusion that 20138 will be surpassed soon.
You were right
Almost. Kenenisa Bekele ran 2:01:41
Wow
I just wonder how Samuel Wanjiru would have fared against Eliud Kipchoge had he not died so young!
Kiswahili kitukuzwe kabisa
Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 254 my fav
Distance runner ever. He would be competing with kipchoge
💚❤
Kipchoge is a beast 🤘
Goat
Hi Sage ! I have a question i'd like to hear a talk on please. I just finished the sydney marathon on september 16th. ran 2:54:48. BQ by 20 minutes. now that there;s six months left until Boston, where do you start training again? when you're already in marathon shape, where do you begin training again? could you please share what you do ?
Hi Sage. I noticed that Eluid Kipchoge does not wear a runni g watch when running the marathon. Not sure if my observation is correct
Now I have to run a few seconds faster in the marathon to set the record...
You are cool!
I dream of a 4:30 min split.
Thx
How is it even possible?!
I LOVE your videos Sage Canaday. You actually inspired me to make my own running/ fitness/ workout training channel to try and help others the way you do and document my journey to runnigna mile under 4:30! I'd appreciate some feedback or support from anyone that would like to check it out! peace
I would think that a blood test might be the routine with breaking the world record... Amazing great runner/racer.
yes it is. back here in kenya, EK is always in seminars discouraging doping i really don't think he uses epos. hope they test him as much and as random as possible
@@mwangi766 its unlikely in any sport that the greatest of all time has never used performance enhancing drugs when most every elite beneath him has used at some point. I feel like the anti doping is really more for PR, to allow the federations to respected worldwide, to allow athletes to get sponsorships and to mitigate the number of amateurs who would attempt to dope and hurt themselves. Otherwise doping should just be allowed since pretty much everyone uses anyway.
@@Isaiah_McIntosh nah watch what Haile Gebrselassie said about doping..
He said if you dope, the people of your country will lose all the respect they had and you'd rather die after
Was it a Michael Jackson song, "I'm looking at the man in the... arena"?
Do you think he would run a sub 2 hour, if he had tried again in monza?
Mind numbing speed and endurance...
On da Gear anyway :)
I run 10" per minute lol, the sloth who decided to run
it's a good start... push it! 9:45's, baby!
You could pace him for a 5k? I could pace him for an 800m.
Which is harder a sub 40 10k or a sub 3 hour marathon?
So is 15km/h for 40 minutes or 14km/h for 180 minutes harder? I would say the latter.
Do you think Kipchoge is doping Sage? As a clean sport athlete yourself I would love to see what you think about this I for one don't think he is based on his personality. If someone is doping they have personality flaws that shine through eventually and he doesn't have those flaws in his personality.
Wtf? Dude, you sound you're doping.
of course he is
@@PeterGeras 🤣
Sage beats Kipchoge low to mid difficulty;)
Sage, kindly reminder , you should really pay attention on skin care, you have to run several decades under extreme sunshine...
I close my eyes and I imagine is Tom Cruise talking.
Oscar Maidana lol 😂
it is obvious to me that eliud must have religiously implemented your training talks in his quest for glory
First
Anyway there is a doping in his race when that guy on the motor cycle gives him a bottle
Huh? So what?
@@FTStratLP ignore him lol
Roids.
At the Elite level you are completely forgetting the “Supplements “
He must be well drugged in addition to being a great runner
Doug bananaboy they get drug tested, also do you not know Kenyans are incredible runners?
He sounds so jelaous, why don´t you try to beat if your an ''profesional athelete''. Thats Kipschoge deserve so well, he sets the limit for those ''professional'' that runs only for the sponsorship money.
Wut? You on drugs?
um, why do I sound jealous? I have no idea what you are talking about. This was meant to be a celebration of Kipchoge's mental attitude and how it helped him achieve is goals...and what we can learn from his approach. I apologize if you think I was coming off as being critical but that was not the intent.
Sage you have nothing to apologize for. Astro is coming way out of left field here.
Do you mean envious? Of course Sage is envious as hell. I would find it strange if any professional runner were not envious of Eliud. Do you wish you could overcome your perceived limits?
Maybe u r jealous ? Lol Cause Sage sounds anything but jealous.