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What to do if you hate exercise (or need some support motivating yourself to do it)
Lessons from the most optimistic sport in the world
I was following the Boston Marathon this week (it happened on Monday!), and while I was watching I stumbled upon something called the “Kipchoge Challenge”.
If you don’t know who Eliud Kipchoge is, he’s the fastest long distance runner in the world– his official record is 2 hours and a minute in competition, but he’s run below 2 hours before. That’s 13 miles in one hour!
But how might you put that speed into perspective? Some people were curious, and that is where the “Kipchoge Challenge” came in: The task was to find out how long you could run at Kipchoge’s marathon pace of 13 mph.
I didn’t actually do the challenge but I watched a few Youtube videos, and it was humbling to witness nonetheless. I was finding that even very fit people would last only about 1–2 minutes at his pace.
