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Kipchoge’s record sets stage for faster times

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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge celebrates winning the Berlin Marathon and breaking the World Record [Photo: Courtesy]

Eliud Kipchoge’s spectacular 2:01:39 marathon world record at Berlin Marathon last Sunday raises a number of questions about just how low the record can go and when another record might happen.

As impressive as these performances are, I have been saying since the early 1990s that it might be physiologically possible for a human to run faster – and perhaps even to run a marathon under two hours.

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