I "believe" he would've still beaten them all on a flat track as opposed to on the Chicago Marathon course roadways with elevation etc. (though it is known for it's flat pathways).
Hey this was actually a really cool idea to rally a bunch of people to work together towards such a massive goal. Seemed like you guys had a lot of fun! Would've loved to be there!
Strangers coming together to help a group of random people complete a random goal with no real meaning other than wanting to see if they could do it is exactly why I think humanity is really underrated. All it took was one small group to help then everyone else wants to as well. People as a whole are way more awesome than a lot of us give ourselves credit for.
@@vanillathunder7288 it was actually more around 220 because of the lane 4 curve, so really I think their time together was about 46 on a normal 400 which is honestly pretty insane for a mixed gender 200 relay.
Just wanna say that these "average runners" in the video still are really great runners and probably top 1-2%. Just shows the gap between top 1% and top 1-1000 runners.
@@NinaGiddingsthey’re grown adult men. The above average middle school runner are hitting sub 1 mins. Imagine what grown adults who run can do. To be completely honest I’m surprised it was this difficult for them. They only ran around 2.5 miles each…
@@christoph-haider I mean their prs, many I’ve seen go into high school with 55.XX times. It would be cool to see 10 JH or HS try this, I don’t think it would be very difficult.
Keep making stuff like this and you will get big - weirdly this concept could be applied to many extremely difficult challenges. Im thinking strongman competitions, how hilarious would to be to see 10 people just able to carry the same amount of weight as a single person.
They did something similar in worlds strongest man 2018. It was an arm over arm pull and there was like 2 or 3 people and they pulled it like a third of the course in the time allotted which was like 75 seconds or something. Then they have the WSM guys doing it by themselves in like 40 seconds lol
They wouldn’t be barely or just able to do that. 10 makes it easy for each. Dividing any weight of multiple 100 kg by 10 makes it way below 100 and light. It takes 8 4th graders to beat Mitchell Hooper in tug of war
We've this for several years as a race against other teams. Mixed team, 10 runners, average age 35. Our record 2h18m. One year, a local high school finished it in 2h12m. Lots of fun as a race
a really fun video to watch, made me realize how insane those marathon runners are to run at that pace for 42KM, kudos for your whole crew for "kinda" breaking the world record👍
Bro this might be one of the best videos I’ve seen this year, so good to see a solid track community in Australia get around a challenge like that! This made me proud to be Aussie in a weird way
@@user-em4wh5ji3w There was an entire industry dedicated to getting under 2 hour marathon. If Kelvin up and did it, which he would have within a year or two, what then?
Great video man, I am a student in Leuven (Belgium) and there we have an annual event called the "24urenloop" where all different student groups compete to see who can run the furthest in 24 hours in a relay of 530m. I really think you'd love the atmosphere there. Can't wait for your next triathlon updates though, I have entered Challenge Almere on the 14th september so I'm gonna need your videos the comming months to keep me motivated.
When I was a kid (15 or so), I participated in a relay marathon. We were 5 people, all around that age and we swapped after every kilometer (obviously meaning that the two fastest runners would do 9 laps, one person does 8 laps and the final sprint, two people do 8 laps). The first three laps felt super easy to keep close to our regular times for a kilometer (3min flat) but I remember feeling close to death at the 9th with the times dropping accordingly. It's kinda funny how stamina works with those periods of recharging but it was still inevitably to break down eventually.
What a fun and entertaining video to watch! Loved to see you guys enjoying this challenge and bringing runners together. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work
Such a great premise for a video, you get to appreciate the athleticism of the competitive marathon runners and see strangers working together for a random challenge. Good stuff
I got this feeling when I started getting into cycling last year. My normal route is just under 26 miles and takes me about an hour fifty to do. It’s wild the think that Kiptum and Kipchoge were basically running at the speed I was biking at.
A couple of them don't run and some are running 3-4hr marathons (still very impressive but not insanely fast). I'd say the skill levels goes from average-serious runners
@@warrenlu6724 I have a 3:23 marathon that puts me well above average and theres no way I could maintain 1:15 for 10 splits. These guys might not be well trained for longer distances but they obviously do have above average ability
A couple years ago, I did an event with my girlfriend and a bunch of my cross country friends from high school called Ragnar. The concept of the race is basically the same as this. You make a team of up to 12, pile into vans, and instead of running 26 miles its 200. Each person is assigned a number and runs three legs between 2.5 and 10 miles, so you can have more experienced runners take the brunt of the milage. It was a really amazing time! We finished in 28 hrs. I got no sleep the entire time and ran about 18 miles in that time. Highly recommend if there's a race in your area and you got a couple friends to do it with (no experience needed!)
There's something similar called Ekiden (no specific distance) from Japan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiden I've run a leg of one before, it's good fun too! Was much less than 28 hours long though.
Amazingly puts it into perspective how mental 2 hour marathon pace is. It's a struggle to keep up with it on 423m with nearly 10 minutes of rest between each.
I coach JD's (9-12 yo) athletes and we did something similar to this as a workout for running a fast 5km (had groups of 3 doing 200m legs (so 8/9 x 200m on about double rest) Was a fun way to do that workout. Way back in 2012 we did this similar challenge with our run crew ahead of watching the Olympic marathon on TV at a bar (had legs as short as 100m and as long as 800m based on runner speed)
Excellent job on the production, the concept and well done on the result! 💪 Would really love to know how you kept track of everything during the event? E.g. splits, keeping track of laps completed, individual runners lap times etc. Would love to do something similar with some mates but scratching my head on managing this part! Thank you 😊
For anyone wondering, the song at the end (12:30) is "Les Fleur" by 4hero. Took me a couple of hours of intense googling to figure out. I haven't listened to that song in 20 years and I was going mad
Partway through the video, I forgot that each lap is 423 meters and not 400 like normal. Pretty impressive! A sub 2 hour marathon would be 68-69 seconds per 400, which is nuts.
When i was 16 my athletics club did a similar thing. Teams of 3, 200m each for 5k. So it was a proper workout as you only got about 1 min rest between each 200m rep. I can't remember our exact time but we were somewhere between the men's 5000m record and sub 13.
It’s even more insane when you think about how these guys aren’t even just regular people, they’re “average runners” so their athleticism is already far greater than most people
1) It goes to show how insane a 2 hr marathon is. It's exhausting running 400 m at 1:11, imagine Kipchoge or Kiptum running 99 laps first before running the last one at 1:11. 2) Imagine how fast 10 record marathoners could run this if splitting their times haha.
they wouldn’t even be that much faster because they mostly train anaerobic ability which means they can hold the pace essentially forever but their aerobic ability isn’t substantially bigger meaning the additional oxygen they have over a short distance doesn’t benefit them as much. However professional sprinters could obliterate this time
Hell no! Every year, there's a 26x1 relay here where 26 average club runners (~5:30-7 minute milers) run a relay marathon (one runner runs 1.2 miles) - and that means the team time of the winner is usually around 2:20 - to break the world record with 5k runners you would need 8 runners capable of running 5k in 14:30-14:45 or so - which is out of reach for all but elite club runners (or college athletes).
Well done! 10 average runners and a team of competitive sprinters is all that it takes then. If we took the world record 4×100 and iterated enough times to complete a marathon, we would still not break the 1-hour barrier. It would give us 1:04:46. So maybe 1:10:00 would be possible with the world’s best 100 m sprinters.
And kipchoge would’ve just been running beside them all alone the whole time… unbelievable.
No he would have finished 2 minutes behind.
@@stragomagus9922🤓🤡
@@stragomagus9922 indeed he would not have been able to match the surge of those sprinters who took over around lap 70.
He would have been so far ahead I wonder if he could have pushed himself.
I "believe" he would've still beaten them all on a flat track as opposed to on the Chicago Marathon course roadways with elevation etc. (though it is known for it's flat pathways).
Hey this was actually a really cool idea to rally a bunch of people to work together towards such a massive goal. Seemed like you guys had a lot of fun! Would've loved to be there!
framing a marathon as 100 400m laps makes it seem completely insane.
Not really a cool idea. A runner knows if he can hold pace or not. The challenge is over when you select the right runners
@@DheRadmanisnt it supposed tp be 42km and therefore 105 laps?
@@merlinjover5689it was done in lane 4, not lane 1.
Strangers coming together to help a group of random people complete a random goal with no real meaning other than wanting to see if they could do it is exactly why I think humanity is really underrated. All it took was one small group to help then everyone else wants to as well. People as a whole are way more awesome than a lot of us give ourselves credit for.
Agree. Love stuff like this. Doing positive stuff just because.
what about list of things that humans have done that is very bad. like literally so much stuff
and those strangers were incredibly fast; almost world class level for 400m
I think it was 200m splits since they mentioned doing 200 relays. I was confused too since it was almost the women's world record @@RurbanWalker
@@charlietian4023 ah yes, that makes way more sense
This was so fun to do! Thanks for asking my squad and I to help, we all had a blast!
Was great to have you! Definitely saved the day for us!!!
Legends for helping out
Your crew pulling up was the best thing that could have happened. Legends.
Running community is amazing, after the first group stepped in to help just more and more did 🙌
Great effort, such a fun video to watch
I think that says just how impressive the new marathon record is.
Yup. I think you could add a "ridiculously" in front of the impressive...
Definitely, it’s amazing
It's like 6 minutes faster than the Olympic record I think
the casual set of Olympians that just came in doing sub 1 min times helped a lot haha. good video
Sub 1 isn’t actually that bad. Go to a middle school track meet and you’ll see a sub 55
They were each running 200m at a time, not a full 400m.
@@vanillathunder7288 it was actually more around 220 because of the lane 4 curve, so really I think their time together was about 46 on a normal 400 which is honestly pretty insane for a mixed gender 200 relay.
@@zitronensaaft3454yeah they had to take an outside lane cause a marathon is just over 42km as opposed to 100x400m or 40km on the dot
@@HollandB very few middle schoolers can get sub 55 man
Puts in perspective the difference between recreational runners and serious runners... Those guys and gals were flying!!!
Just wanna say that these "average runners" in the video still are really great runners and probably top 1-2%. Just shows the gap between top 1% and top 1-1000 runners.
@@Van1sh my 400 PR is a 1:17 (I'm a girl) so that's insane to run that many 400's that fast.
@@NinaGiddingsthey’re grown adult men. The above average middle school runner are hitting sub 1 mins. Imagine what grown adults who run can do. To be completely honest I’m surprised it was this difficult for them. They only ran around 2.5 miles each…
@@bloblobberrthey can run 10 times sub 1 mins within 2 hours? or just 1 of them?
@@christoph-haider I mean their prs, many I’ve seen go into high school with 55.XX times. It would be cool to see 10 JH or HS try this, I don’t think it would be very difficult.
Keep making stuff like this and you will get big - weirdly this concept could be applied to many extremely difficult challenges. Im thinking strongman competitions, how hilarious would to be to see 10 people just able to carry the same amount of weight as a single person.
I love this idea! Would be great for charity events.
They did something similar in worlds strongest man 2018. It was an arm over arm pull and there was like 2 or 3 people and they pulled it like a third of the course in the time allotted which was like 75 seconds or something. Then they have the WSM guys doing it by themselves in like 40 seconds lol
They wouldn’t be barely or just able to do that. 10 makes it easy for each. Dividing any weight of multiple 100 kg by 10 makes it way below 100 and light. It takes 8 4th graders to beat Mitchell Hooper in tug of war
@@stevensamaniego7047any idea where i can find the video? I've been looking for a couple minutes but can't find anything
You have to be careful with partner/team lifts. If someone drops it, it can get bad real fast
Loved closing track meets with the 4x400.
Maybe we should add a 125x400 to decide the team championships!
Average distance workout
We've this for several years as a race against other teams. Mixed team, 10 runners, average age 35. Our record 2h18m. One year, a local high school finished it in 2h12m. Lots of fun as a race
for that are you running 2 miles each or cycling through the people multiple times like in this video?
That first hand off to one of the pros was scary how fast they are 😳
The flip of the switch was nuts and the difference in running cadence was noticeable immediately
9:16 For anyone wondering
I mean you dont have to be a runner to do that??? These normal folks were worse than I thought
a really fun video to watch, made me realize how insane those marathon runners are to run at that pace for 42KM, kudos for your whole crew for "kinda" breaking the world record👍
Bro this might be one of the best videos I’ve seen this year, so good to see a solid track community in Australia get around a challenge like that! This made me proud to be Aussie in a weird way
Rip to kelvin kiptim, absolute legend and no one knows where his full potential would have been
He would have done sub 2 in an unaided real marathon for sure.
@@user-em4wh5ji3w There was an entire industry dedicated to getting under 2 hour marathon. If Kelvin up and did it, which he would have within a year or two, what then?
Nice simple editing, nice idea, and nice pace. An achievement and a good time for sure
Great video man, I am a student in Leuven (Belgium) and there we have an annual event called the "24urenloop" where all different student groups compete to see who can run the furthest in 24 hours in a relay of 530m. I really think you'd love the atmosphere there. Can't wait for your next triathlon updates though, I have entered Challenge Almere on the 14th september so I'm gonna need your videos the comming months to keep me motivated.
This vid was actually really well done and is the definition of how running can be entertaining
When I was a kid (15 or so), I participated in a relay marathon. We were 5 people, all around that age and we swapped after every kilometer (obviously meaning that the two fastest runners would do 9 laps, one person does 8 laps and the final sprint, two people do 8 laps). The first three laps felt super easy to keep close to our regular times for a kilometer (3min flat) but I remember feeling close to death at the 9th with the times dropping accordingly.
It's kinda funny how stamina works with those periods of recharging but it was still inevitably to break down eventually.
Yeah eventually your muscle fibers start physically tearing and you need to sleep to heal.
I love you Dr Zaius!
"Morning Run" on Strava 😆 Well done, guys! Great challenge, great to watch!
This was beautiful to watch. The Running community pretty much one of the best supportive communities out there. Thanks for showing this.
Dope video boys!
Haha no way this is sick!
Dang, really makes you realize it's a game of seconds. I feel like they could have saved a lot of time by practicing the baron handoff. Awesome video!
13:33 elevation gain? Haha, and that one lap that goes way wide 😂 what a great run guys!
What a fun and entertaining video to watch! Loved to see you guys enjoying this challenge and bringing runners together. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work
I'm still wondering how this is humanly possible to be more powerful and resistant than 10 people. This is crazy
lachlan ive been rewatching your videos all the time, I beg of you please post more
3:18 might be one of the funniest comments I've heard on YT
Algorithm sent this my way, super wholesome fun, what a cracking idea, and great effort from all of you, even slackie Lackie!
What a testament to how great the running community is. AWESOME VIDEO
Such a great premise for a video, you get to appreciate the athleticism of the competitive marathon runners and see strangers working together for a random challenge. Good stuff
Most genuine wholesome video I've seen in forever.
Huge effort, glad you could learn from the track nerds and adopt the 200ish meter reps to take it home!
I gotta say, that was captivating. Was thinking about skipping to the end, but kept being too interested to do so.
I got this feeling when I started getting into cycling last year. My normal route is just under 26 miles and takes me about an hour fifty to do. It’s wild the think that Kiptum and Kipchoge were basically running at the speed I was biking at.
Exactly what i was thinking about last time i was cyclong
This was such a sick video!! Super wholesome and great storytelling and editing
Average runner?! Sub-5min mile?! That’s an insanely fast pace!
Yeah this is very elite compared to actual average runners.
They only ran 1 lap at that pace at a time though
A couple of them don't run and some are running 3-4hr marathons (still very impressive but not insanely fast). I'd say the skill levels goes from average-serious runners
@@warrenlu6724 I have a 3:23 marathon that puts me well above average and theres no way I could maintain 1:15 for 10 splits.
These guys might not be well trained for longer distances but they obviously do have above average ability
@@peadarr they are great runners for sure. just saying that some are retired/dont train
This is such a good idea! Great video guys - link us to the Strava post!
A couple years ago, I did an event with my girlfriend and a bunch of my cross country friends from high school called Ragnar. The concept of the race is basically the same as this. You make a team of up to 12, pile into vans, and instead of running 26 miles its 200. Each person is assigned a number and runs three legs between 2.5 and 10 miles, so you can have more experienced runners take the brunt of the milage. It was a really amazing time! We finished in 28 hrs. I got no sleep the entire time and ran about 18 miles in that time. Highly recommend if there's a race in your area and you got a couple friends to do it with (no experience needed!)
There's something similar called Ekiden (no specific distance) from Japan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiden I've run a leg of one before, it's good fun too! Was much less than 28 hours long though.
Probably my favorite running video I’ve seen all year .. and I watch a bunch of them. Love this idea and would love to participate in one of these!
Amazingly puts it into perspective how mental 2 hour marathon pace is. It's a struggle to keep up with it on 423m with nearly 10 minutes of rest between each.
Just shows how insane the marathon world record is. Kipchoge is a beast
world record was kelvin kiptum (rip)
This was the coolest most wholesome run I’ve ever seen
I coach JD's (9-12 yo) athletes and we did something similar to this as a workout for running a fast 5km (had groups of 3 doing 200m legs (so 8/9 x 200m on about double rest)
Was a fun way to do that workout.
Way back in 2012 we did this similar challenge with our run crew ahead of watching the Olympic marathon on TV at a bar (had legs as short as 100m and as long as 800m based on runner speed)
Fantastic video! Was really really fun to watch and it's a great idea, you guys seem like a great friendgroup:)
The fact that you only beat it by 2 minutes is wild. Kudos kipchoge.
Watching this with a nasty cold... All I want to do is go out and run! lol. Great video!
This was an amazing video, goes to show you dont need constant cuts and over the top editing to make a good vid
Imagine having an actual marathon runner go side by side these guys and actually be able to keep up
Excellent job on the production, the concept and well done on the result! 💪
Would really love to know how you kept track of everything during the event? E.g. splits, keeping track of laps completed, individual runners lap times etc.
Would love to do something similar with some mates but scratching my head on managing this part! Thank you 😊
90 laps in out of 100. "at this stage we realised 200m at a time was easier" 😂😂
This was awesome. Kudos to all of the participants!
For anyone wondering, the song at the end (12:30) is "Les Fleur" by 4hero. Took me a couple of hours of intense googling to figure out. I haven't listened to that song in 20 years and I was going mad
I recommend checking out Shazam my friend
It's by 'Minnie Ripperton' orginally, back in 1969....
@@AlastairSmith I know that it's a cover. But that's the song used in the video, not the original
this is such a fun idea! please more of that kind of content!
2:40 marathon is just insane. Strava numbers on top.
That’s so cool how others joined in and you did this whole thing just cause it was fun 😄
I like the idea of a format putting a bunch of normal people together trying to break a world record. It shows how insane WR really are!
That seems like a hecka fun workout! Great job guys!
Partway through the video, I forgot that each lap is 423 meters and not 400 like normal. Pretty impressive! A sub 2 hour marathon would be 68-69 seconds per 400, which is nuts.
Ha, I'm glad I saw this comment, because I completely missed that, and was about to comment something embarrassing :P
1:08.24 per 400m
When i was 16 my athletics club did a similar thing. Teams of 3, 200m each for 5k. So it was a proper workout as you only got about 1 min rest between each 200m rep. I can't remember our exact time but we were somewhere between the men's 5000m record and sub 13.
just read this comment - had commented after but do this with my 9-12 year old athletes - is a good workout
That would make a great "Real" event. 10 runners, 3 events, male, female and mixed.
this is a great idea especially for days when one needs to do track work. extra motivation to push hard / work together.
Great video mate! Class to see others getting involved! good shit!
1:24 "It was compulsory" LMAO
It’s even more insane when you think about how these guys aren’t even just regular people, they’re “average runners” so their athleticism is already far greater than most people
those strangers are menaces...casually dropping 47s-50s 400m is legit nuts
They were doing 200s I think. (But splits were per 2x200). Actually gotta be a little more than 200 cuz it was lane 4, think that's 423m
No way those were 400s. I think they mentioned those would be 200s.
You all had me grinning the whole vid! Love the idea and well put together video too!
Really cool idea and great video! also excellent song choices
Just some mates being bros. How can you not love it.
Very nice, this shows how running brings people together 🎉
This is what you call an excellent video . Congrats guys
Such a great video idea, and really well-made video :)
To think that even with Kipchoge running at full pace, he would be a full 2 mins behind these lads. Legends.
Editing went crazy in this vid nicely done what a fun idea
I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a TH-cam video!!
Imagine yourself Top 10 marathon runners in the world, doing this relay to complete a marathon.
1) It goes to show how insane a 2 hr marathon is. It's exhausting running 400 m at 1:11, imagine Kipchoge or Kiptum running 99 laps first before running the last one at 1:11.
2) Imagine how fast 10 record marathoners could run this if splitting their times haha.
they wouldn’t even be that much faster because they mostly train anaerobic ability which means they can hold the pace essentially forever but their aerobic ability isn’t substantially bigger meaning the additional oxygen they have over a short distance doesn’t benefit them as much. However professional sprinters could obliterate this time
“Freestyle Marathon Relay” sounds like a really cool race. Fixed sized teams of course but it’s up to each team when they pass the baton and to who.
Would be cool to see this as an actual sport with a record. Teams of 10 splitting the running however they'd like to get the fastest marathon time
RIP Kelvin Kiptum. It's unbelievable a human being could have run that pace for 2-hours.
Watching from London, love this video
very good idea ! The best marathon runners are unhuman. Not only Kipchoge, but all runners around 2h10 2h20.
Fact that marathon runners jog as fast as most of us can just short of sprint is wild
Looks like the funniest way to do something so difficult! Cheers for the fight boys.
Such a feel good video guys, keep them coming
Such a fun video😂 really enjoyed this!
0:40 - stepped on the line. Anything you think you did does not count. Wondering if I should even watch any more.
Hell no! Every year, there's a 26x1 relay here where 26 average club runners (~5:30-7 minute milers) run a relay marathon (one runner runs 1.2 miles) - and that means the team time of the winner is usually around 2:20 - to break the world record with 5k runners you would need 8 runners capable of running 5k in 14:30-14:45 or so - which is out of reach for all but elite club runners (or college athletes).
A 2:50 kilometer is *not* an average runner!
Imagine that Kiptum and Kipchoge ran the entire marathon at almost the speed of these guys, only 2.5-3 minutes slower.
This is one of the best videos on TH-cam❤❤❤
RIP Kelvin Kiptum ❤
This video deserves more views - it's brilliant
Those sprinters coming in to help was like an Avengers assemble moment.
This is like a 4 ball scramble to beat the course record
Well done! 10 average runners and a team of competitive sprinters is all that it takes then. If we took the world record 4×100 and iterated enough times to complete a marathon, we would still not break the 1-hour barrier. It would give us 1:04:46. So maybe 1:10:00 would be possible with the world’s best 100 m sprinters.
400m "sprinters" break the marathon record. These are quite fast (avg) runners. Shows how fast world-class marathoners run
You lads are hilarious, keep the videos up!
Really fun video and great soundtrack selection!
hahahah that was incredible. Favorite vid you've done, that looked like a blast.
makes me so amped for track season and its 3 months away
Really cool idea! had great fun watching