Ep 49: Project 1:59 Breaking The 2 Hour Barrier Together
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
For hundreds of thousands of runners, breaking 2 hours in the half marathon is the goal they fight for. It requires grit, determination, perseverance, and patience because for so many of us, it takes year to break through that mental barrier. And this weekend, after we launched Project 1:59, I saw first hand how difficult it is to believe in yourself when you don't think you can do it. I want to take a second to celebrate all the runners who try, fall short, and dare to try time and time again.
If you're chasing that sub 2 hour half marathon, join the Project 1:59 club on Strava and share your story! Let us know where you're racing and what breaking 2 means to you. This year, we're breaking the 2 hour barrier together.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. |
| 0:05.9 | Would you be mine? |
| 0:07.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to episode 49 of the Run, Sopheurpee podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running. |
| 0:15.4 | My name is Kelly Roberts, and I'm the one woman's show behind this crazy operation. |
| 0:22.6 | And today, today, today, today, today I want to talk about, I really want to talk about |
| 0:30.1 | the struggle that is setting a goal, going for it, falling short, trying again, falling short, trying again, once again, falling short, |
| 0:40.7 | and then still finding the courage and the drive to keep persisting because it's that grit and |
| 0:48.0 | perseverance that inspired this project that I launched recently with Strava. It's called Project 159. |
| 0:56.0 | So, uh, I have to be honest. This, this project 159, it started when Nike launched breaking |
| 1:03.5 | two, which was this publicity stunt slash insane science experiment to like break two hours |
| 1:09.7 | in the marathon. It's a barrier that is |
| 1:11.5 | physiologically impossible as of now. They recruited their best male athletes. They gave them, |
| 1:20.4 | they just, they threw everything they have, spent a bazillion dollars and then put these |
| 1:24.6 | athletes on a track with the right pacer's, and they ran in circles, |
| 1:28.5 | and they tried to break two hours in the marathon. |
| 1:31.8 | It was incredible. |
| 1:34.1 | To even, like, say that this whole breaking two thing wasn't totally insane and incredible. |
| 1:43.0 | It just, it was, it was crazy. |
| 1:45.0 | It was a total athletic breakthrough, but it was boring as hell. |
| 1:48.9 | Did I watch it? |
| 1:50.3 | I watched it for like five minutes, and when comedian Kevin Hart came on and couldn't |
| 1:54.3 | make it entertaining and funny, I was like, I'm going to bed, and I will read the article |
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