{"id":489,"date":"2020-07-13T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:29:17","slug":"how-to-run-a-record-breaking-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/13\/how-to-run-a-record-breaking-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run a record-breaking marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eliud Kipchoge set a world record in 2019 when he became the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours. He gave himself ideal conditions. He chose a flat course in cool weather. He had the course all to himself. He didn\u2019t race against other runners. He raced against the clock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he was not alone. He had a coach. And he had a team of pacers who took shifts running alongside him. If any sport is a solo sport, you would think it would be running. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1727150\/breaking-marathon-barrier-required-43-world-class-runners\/\">But not even running is a solo sport.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to have the best chance of moving forward, assemble a team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliud Kipchoge set a world record in 2019 when he became the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours. He gave himself ideal conditions. He chose a flat course in cool weather. He had the course all to himself. He didn\u2019t race against other runners. He raced against the clock.&nbsp; But he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/13\/how-to-run-a-record-breaking-marathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to run a record-breaking marathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}