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What does it take to run a marathon in under 2 hours?

EPISODE · Apr 30, 2026 · 9 MIN

What does it take to run a marathon in under 2 hours?

from The Current

The two-hour marathon was an unreachable limit for decades. Now, Sabastian Sawe has officially broken it. So what changed? Matt Galloway speaks with Alex Hutchinson, senior writer at Canadian Running Magazine, about what this moment tells us about the limits of human performance itself.

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