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Old 10-01-2008, 02:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Runner Coug View Post
Haile Gebrselassie broke his own world record on Sunday. Ran a 2:03:59 in Berlin.

That's 4:43 a mile, just in case you're wondering.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tracka...ory?id=3614098
That's friggin amazing. You watch these guys on TV and it doesn't even look like they're running that fast--essentially a sprint for 26 miles. It makes me wonder how slow I would look on TV.

I wonder if we'll live to see 2 hours broken.
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