26.1 miles in under 2 hours, how is that possible? Driving music, slomo shots, Kipchoge in white on his own surrounded by the pacemakers in black, it's built for drama. It seems a bit ludicrous the amount of fuss and staging for this, but then the challenge is ludicrous. What I love about running is the simplicity of it. I suspect though that he doesn't mind that, it takes the pressure off. Visually for a period it becomes the INEOS challenge rather than Kipchoge. The course choice, fuelling, formation, the tech, the team. Dave Beresford features quite a lot as the logistics man around the attempt in Vienna with his "marginal gains". The fact that Kipchoge embraces it is what makes him special. The fact is, running at that pace for 2 hours would destroy 99.99% humans on the planet.
It might help focus the mind, but it would probably implode a few too. How all this stuff delegitimises this record. I've heard a lot about the use of pacemakers, lights measuring the perfect line and of course shoes. Just seeing himself as part of the machine striving for something historical. The greatest marathon runner of all time, he must know it too, but it doesn't seem to effect him, he's the definition of humble. That's not unique either, but Kipchoge seems to have everything in perfect balance. It's the mental strength that's the focus. He's clearly gifted, built to run fast, trains hard, but there's lots of athletes like that. Not just about the attempt, that's just the current goal, but the bedrock of running and being a runner. Here we get stories from trainers, coaches, pacemakers, physios, Eliud himself. How many people know that much about Kipchoge though, aside the world records and that he makes distance running look ridiculously easy. There was a lot of hype around this when it took place in Vienna in October 2019, so there's no real surprises. This is Eliud Kipchoge's attempt to be the first human to run a marathon in under 2 hours.
Maybe not a huge surprise with Ridley Scott's son Jake at the helm. It's very stylised in places, beautifully shot sequences flexing the £4.5 mil budget.
I was expecting another running documentary.
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