Apparently he’s only 34???
Hmm 
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His interview afterwards needs to be shown to every sportsperson
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Outstanding and a piece of history just made 
What an incredible achievement, chapeau!
That was emotional.
I want a pair of those trainers
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That was immense. The onions comment above is spot on. As is the one about his interview. What a genuinely nice guy. That final km was emotional just to watch. The genuine thrill of his pacers was hugely touching.
Don’t think you’d get that feeling if you’d just tuned in at 1hr50 GB 
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I’m glad I sacked off Parkrun and watched the whole thing
The last km and when he signalling to the crowd
I’m not sure if the tag line “No human is limited” is 100% his, but he sure believes it
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Haha. Fair point. Though I had it on in the background and was trying to juggle family life and watch at the same time.
My wife really wasn’t getting the gravity of the moment as I tried to explain it 
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My wife did (but then she does run) Followed it on my phone but got the whole family watching the final 10 mins on the TV. Amazing achievement.
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Impressive stuff that. I was timekeeping at the local parkrun and watching it on my phone hoping no one was going to break 16 minutes, luckily first home was 17:30 so I saw him going over the line.
I’ve ran in that park last year, it is flat, but I was a bit slower 
Jeff
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I really wish the commentators had shut up in the last 100mtrs and just let us soak it in. Instead we got the same story that had been trotted out 20times previously.
Strava should do one of their challenges to celebrate this.
Start on a track and see how long you can hold 2.50 pace for. Quick mental calc, correct me if I’m wrong, puts it at about 68 secs per 400m.
Reckon I could just scrape 1200m if I was lucky.
To be an alright runner, but still be so, so, so ridiculously far away from this feat really shows how outstanding it is.
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Same discussion this morning when realised no one from my run club can do one mile at pace 
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Someone posted that of the 50+ million park runs done so far only 5 have been run quicker than Kipchoge’s target pace
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Was TV show hosted by Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter? It’s not sport (even when way too many are doped up, sporting events have a sporting element at least) it’s just a pointless arbitrary distance with vague rules, no more interesting than the fastest mile being 3:27 or whatever it is.
It’s not a great achievement when you can’t compare it to any other achievements, it might have been only the 1000th best 26.2 mile run without all those illegal in a marathon aids, you just can’t know. Pointless.
Think it was something like 1:08 400m’s, I can probably do about 1 lap of the track at that pace!
Jeff
Cor, who stole your picnic Jim?
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Uh, that’s 17s per 100m. That’s my all out 100m sprint.