What an achievement - Well Done, Joshua!

[mrrun]

Joshua Cheptegei sets a new 5,000m world record, beating Kenenisa Bekele's 16-year-old mark by two seconds. His time? 12:35!!!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Congratulations to him, 12.35 for a 5K, wow, if he ran at the parkrun I run, he would lap me 3 times. 😊 🏃🏾

[mrrun Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

And he had three pacers (I think). Imagine giving him the pace? I simply can't get my head around it. That Is Speed!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Wow, he is going to be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

I hope he has a rest day tomorrow.

[mrrun Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

I saw Kenenisa Bekele on YouTube setting the previous WR in 2004. I believe he lapped one of the runners and towards the finish his face was contorting. But when the great man finished he looked as if he'd never run. That level is something else.

[nowster Graduate]

That's 2'31"/km! Whoosh!

[mrrun Graduate in reply to nowster]

And to think that top guys run marathons at steady tempo of just around 3 mins per km? Crazy.....

[Tasha99 Graduate]

😱🤣

[Birdlady64 Graduate]

To put that in some kind of context at the same meet Laura Muir broke the British women's record for 1,000 metres previously held by Kelly Holmes in a time of 2:30.82. Congratulations Laura👏

This guy has kept up that pace over 5 times the distance!

Mind blowing!

[mrrun Graduate in reply to Birdlady64]

Indeed. But don't forget that top marathon runners keep the same tempo over the whole distance and the best guys do it at around 3 mins per km. I ran my marathon at 7.30-8 mins per minute. Might as well walked on my arms. As for Laura? Again, tremendous result. Crazy times.

[Birdlady64 Graduate in reply to mrrun]

I know.

HM is a distant dream right now for me - and not even sure I'd I even want to go there.

Still working on getting my sub 40 min 5k 😁