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The Boston Marathon Winner Blows Your Mind (Again), And You Cannot Stop The Kenyans
They ran the 115th Boston Marathon on Monday, and as usual, nobody ran it faster than the Kenyans. Geoffery Mutai set a world record with his time of two hours three minutes and two seconds, and Kenya’s Caroline Kilel won the women’s race in two hours twenty-two minutes and thirty-six seconds.
On average, Mutai ran every mile in about 4:41. Which... Think about that. To run that fast for even a mile would be a dream for most of us, but for twenty-six miles in a row? That’s the sort of mind-bending, physics-defying accomplishment that makes time and space fold in on itself. Like Vince Carter at the 2000 Dunk Contest. Humans shouldn’t be able to do that. And yet, the Kenyan runners do it every single year.
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