Yesterday Haile Gebrselassie broke the men's world record for the marathon, running it in 2:04:26. Just as impressive is the fact that Geb at one point in time has been the world record holder for the indoor 2000 m run, the indoor 3000 m, the 5000 m, and the 10,000 m. And now the marathon. How's that for range! Jack of all trades, master of, um, all.
Anyway, last week I posted a document from Kirk on the google group and said if you read it, you too could run a 2:47.
Well, forget that. I now give you "How To Set the Marathon PR." Look at Geb's splits from yesterday. Match them, and you too can run a 2:04:26. In the interest of full disclosure these splits came via an e-mail to me by a friend of mine who has the suspicious alias "Klassy Barry." So I cannot claim this information is 100% trustworthy, considering the source.
5 km: 00:14:44
10 km: 00:29:27 / 00:14:43
15 km: 00:44:16 / 00:14:50
20 km: 00:59:10 / 00:14:54
25 km: 01:14:05 / 00:14:55
30 km: 01:28:56 / 00:14:51
35 km: 01:43:38 / 00:14:43
40 km: 01:58:08 / 00:14:30
So you guys get out there and run those splits! Records are made to be broken. Why not one of us?
The only thing that would be more amazing than one of us breaking Geb's record is if Marty or Deb posted on this blog. Wait a second, they did! Awesome!
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