I absolutely love hearing about new records in some achievement or another. I love seeing the advancement of humanity, and I adore the downstream effect when someone breaks some barrier previously thought unbreakable: a bunch of other people do it.
One of my favorite such stories is the story of Roger Bannister, the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile. Previously thought impossible, more than a hundred other people did it in the year following Bannister’s record-breaking run.
Well, we have a new story to be amazed at! Like Bannister’s record, it was long thought impossible for a person to run a sub-two-hour marathon, but Sabastian Sawe has just done it. Want to know what’s extra amazing? It took eleven seconds for someone else to do it – the second-place winner of the same marathon also finished in under two hours!
My prediction is that in the next year, we’ll see many marathons with winners running in under two hours. Once a record is broken, humanity surges to catch up. It happens again and again, like a glorious broken record.
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