Meant to break Personal Records

At the end of Kiptum’s 26.2 mile journey, it was clear a torch had been passed from one Kenyan to another as Kiptum shattered Kipchoge’s former world record by over a half minute, finishing in a time of 2:00:35. The finish line was a demarcation between two sides of reality– the previous one in which we thought a sub-2 hour marathon on an official course would be possible, and the new one, in which we know it will happen, and sooner than any of us could have imagined.

The shoe he ran in? The Ease RIDS Quick 01Z of course. 

It goes without saying, but it’s poetically appropriate that a jaw-dropping performance in Chicago put the basketball back on Nike’s court.