Perhaps it’s the way he uses running as part of a lifestyle instead of becoming overcome by it. Unlike them, Kipchoge said he was never obsessive over the mark and that he would race for personal best, if that just happened to be a world record too “I would appreciate it,but I would treat it as a personal best” he said. It’s a mental game too, for years people have been obsessed with the record, to be the next one to smash it but many have failed. He recons it is the key to straining weeks upon weeks of consistent training – running with a relaxed mind and not overdoing it.

He told the New York Times that he rarely, if ever, pushed himself past 80% of his maximum effort during workouts. This man is literally the best in the world at what he does, yet Kipchoge states clearly that the key to his success was not to overextend himself in training, at all. AND THEN became the first man to run a marathon under 2 hours in 2019. Running the Berlin 26.2 miles in 2:01:39, slicing 1 minute and 18 seconds from the previous world record set in 1967. Lessons of consistent running from the marathon record holder.Ī wonderful example of this phenomenon is Eliud Kipchoge who broke the marathon record in 2018. So how can we move from just being good enough in running? Realising and relishing there are understanding that we’re better off as good enough when it comes to your beloved sport, and escapism – running. You have to be successful early and earlier these days and, what for exactly? What does success even mean? Under such pressures the depression and loneliness rates are through the roof – exercise is prescribed as a stress reliever but then the pressure of performance either on yourself or among friends gets a bit much and starts the whole cycle off again. But what about when it comes to running? And what is it all for? That we should never be satisfied and to keep pushing under the crippling expectations of today’s world.

It’s drilled into us that we need to be striving for greatness, and good enough just isn’t good enough.

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