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More than 2 minutes?

September 25, 2023 By in Hard Facts Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Don’t assume her gender. Like I just did.

You just never know these days.

Tigst Assefa shatters the women’s marathon world record by more than 2 minutes in Berlin – Tigst Assefa broke the women’s world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for the fifth time but couldn’t break his own record.

Ethiopian runner Assefa, the winner in Berlin a year ago, ran the race in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women’s record of 2:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.

“It’s all about how your body tolerates pain”

February 3, 2010 By in Health, High Art, Higher Education, History Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Anybody can run up the Empire State Building’s 1,576 stairs in roughly ten minutes and sixteen seconds.

But not many would be willing to do it twice. And like five times in a row?

Damn. That takes devotion. Or profound mental instability. Or maybe a little bit of both. But like they say, somebody’s got to do it – whoever they are.

At 10:30 a.m., a loud fog horn sounded to launch a mad dash from the lobby – where Dold grabbed an early lead and never looked down.