That was hilarious. I imagine he looked back at some point and realized that no one was anywhere near him and he just said to himself "Screw it, I might as well go ahead and win this one."
"This could never happen at the Berlin Marathon" - this HAS happened at the Berlin Marathon! Pacer won in 2000, and the pacer finished 2nd in 2003. LA Marathon was won by a pacer too some years back. A pacer is a legit entrant in the race and is entitled to win if he can. A runner who does not take a pacer seriously deserves what they get.
You have a good memory, the LA marathon was won by a pacer in the 90's. He got a bran new Mercedes and the prize money. The top athletes objected like prima donas but to no avail. Cheers !
Just an update on how his marathon running is going now: he doesn't get many pacing jobs because he's so good. Last year he improved upon his PB by placing fifth in the Valencia marathon with a time of 2:04:12. And now this year in Milan, he came second in a race with another personal best, this time a 2:03:55. That time would win most marathons, but the winner of the race, Titus Ekiru, ran the sixth fastest marathon ever recorded. Rueben Kiprop Kipyego is now the 20th fastest marathoner in history.
@@420jettt2 Of course, like in any paced race, the pacer should be instructed to ease up if the pack don't go with agreed pace. Maybe that message didn't get through Rueben.
To expand my Andrea Carrea comment: He was a professional cyclist, and served as a domestique (instead of team captain). As a domestique, your goal is to help your team captain (usually the strongest rider) so he can win. As a domestique, the glory, the yellow jersey, is not for you, but for your captain. You grab his water bottle from the team car, you give him your bike if his broke down, etc. During Stage 9 of Tour de France 1952, Carrea joined a breakaway group of eight to protect his leader's (Fausto Coppi) interests. After finishing the stage, he went to his hotel, but he got picked up by the local police. He thought he had done something wrong, but then he was informed that he's now the leader of the race. "... I heard I had inherited a jersey destined for champions. For me, it was a terrible situation." He burst into tears, and had to be dragged to the stage to receive the jersey. He cried as he accepted it, fearing retribution from his captain. When he met his captain afterwards at the hotel, he cried as he offered excuses. "You must understand that I did not want this jersey, Fausto. I have no right to it. A poor man like me, the yellow jersey?" Before the start of Stage 10, he posed for the media, polishing Coppi's shoes while wearing the yellow jersey. Carrea was pleased that he lost the race lead that day. After Stage 10, the new yellow jersey owner, the leader of the race, is Fausto Coppi, Carrea's captain.
He enjoyed a secret advantage. The actual racers were of the mindset to be lead on. Removing that advantage was a big psychological blow to these racers.
@@lazygamer7469 they were lead on... they are supposed to be elite runners so why cant they match the pace. if they cant keep up with the pacer then i think the pacer deserves the win, if he feels up to completing the whole race. its known that pacers can win races. He might as well let the other team win by slowing down for the runners.
@@troycameron337 Given that the pacer kept a consistent pace for the entire race, sure sounds like he was doing a bang up job of pacing the race. The "competitors" should have been able to stay with him.
@@buddhabunny4142 This is it right here. as long as the pacer did his "pacing" job correctly and came through in the times he was supposed to then he did nothing wrong. He burned more energy leading the race the entire time than the other runners so he deserves the win. If the "elite" runners cant keep up then they are not elite
@@troycameron337 you say he's not expected to run the entire distance. Would this not be because usually pacers aren't able to keep up with the main competititors for the entire distance, and they start slowing down? In this case the pacer held a fast, but stable and doable speed for the entire distance. He did his job, it's not like he had a fluctuating speed or slowed the pack down. He just pushed for a good time, and the competititors just weren't good enough.
@@jnaylor4389 and Ruben followed pretty much dead on the time he was told to pace for before he started. He was actually told to pace for a 2:05 marathon. Which with 2:04:40 I would say he got dead on. That the people he was pacing for couldn't keep up isn't on him. And unless he got instructed during the race to start pacing for a different time (because the favourites couldn't keep up) then he did his job as a pacer just right.
Totally fair. He as the pacer for the world class competitors needed to run in a way that will lead and push the best to a fast but reasonable pace to finish the race with a world class time. Had he bailed out in the middle because he pushed too hard would be a different story. The fact that he won the race only shows that he did a perfect job but the others couldn't keep up.
Hey, as long as he performed his agreed upon roll of pacer, and it was the elites inability to keep up with the agreed pace that caused him to win, there's absolutely nothing unfair about it. It wasn't their day.
@@gogoldiego He sped up before or after everyone dropped back? I agree it's not ok if he pushed the pace past what was agreed upon, resulting in them dropping. But if he sped up after, fair game.
@@Kelly_Ben he didn't even do that. Agreed upon pace that he was told to keep was to pace for a 2:05. Which with 2:04:40 he fot pretty much dead on. Just that some athletes didn't agree with that from the start. Since they thought 2:05 was too fast. Well it was for most of them. Except for Ruben.
Some people do not know how to use the word "literally" in a sentence. Some people literally abuse the word literally in any literal way they can, literally LOL
As a non native speaker like you know we often use like like you know it gives us something like a break like thinking for the missing word like you know
Great video - in spite of the narrator’s almost criminal use of the word “literally” “he literally crushed the field” “he literally dropped the field” “he could literally see the finish” (as opposed to just seeing the finish)
Pacers are like "motivational" personal trainers. They run right next to you the whole way to push you to your limits. Sometimes they beat you and other times you beat them, its all fair game! Impressive still.
I had a friend who knew someone who did this. Paced a marathon, turned around halfway and saw that no one was behind him so he got the prize money and the money for pacing
Yes, the first half is for the pacer money and the second half is for the prize money. The organisers can't complain. They got a fast marathon. Not to mention extra exposure. I watched this video multiple times.
Paul Pilkington won as a pacer at the LA Marathon in 1994, His prize money as an American, a pace setter and won car value totaled about 65K. He ran 2:12,. Good for Ruben. Its not his fault if no one stayed with him. Besides, as you stated-pacers are no slouches-he had an incredible resume in his own right.
This is runners high. I think i felt this twice in my life. Once on a treadmill and once outside. My body felt unstoppable and fast and i felt like i could go on forever.
ive had this once in my life, unfortunately it was in a team race with the cadets and we were timed as a group I was trying to up the pace for my group coz I felt unstoppable, I ended up breaking off and running the fastest time of the whole contest however the timer stops when the last person from your group crosses the line so it wasn't officials but I'll never forget this moment
"You wouldn't see this at a high profile marathon like Berlin"...except that the same thing happened in Berlin in 2000 when Simon Biwott of Kenya won (he entered the race as a pacer).
Here's a combination of words I'd never thought I'd hear in this order: The question is yes and the answer will be impressive and surprise a lot of you. 3:40
I think it is hard to understand just how close these athletes are in terms of who can win. A marathon is a long race, just getting a rock in a shoe can cause you to get blisters which ruin the rest of the run. So many factors. The pacer had a great day, not just a good day, the pace was on point, he had a good rhythm, super cool to see people run the best races of their lives.
I have absolutely no problem with this. He qualified for the race. He was trained to be at pace for X amount of miles until he burned out and let the elites take over that drafted behind him and were not yet burned out. He did his job as a pacer and exceeded his job as a pacer and it is not at all his fault that the elites could not keep up with his 26.2 mile pace. Honestly that is more impressive that an elite winning that race, because his job was to be a pacer and he had to deal with less help during the entire race. More power to him, he deserves that win 100%. All the elites should congratulate the crap out of him. Nothing at all is wrong with what he did besides put on one hell of an impressive show. 2:04 is about as elite as it gets... Looks like he needs to reconsider his job title after that one ;).
i agree.. companies should start endorsing him after such an achievement. (and it's good PR for being able to say "we signed the pacer that won in Abu Dhabi").
I didnt know pacers were allowed to compete for podium positions, thats news to me. I had always seen pacers drop out halfway through races, this is the first time ive ever seen a pacer run a complete marathon.
This is literally the definition of someone taking a couple sentences and turning it into their thousand word essay minimum. And yes I used literally correctly.
A pacer is there to essentially help the competitors pushing but not too fast so they don’t gas out. But not to slow when they can do better. They run either right in front of right at the heels usually.
As someone who has run sixty marathons in my lifetime ( none with a pacer ) I would submit that there shouldn’t even be pacers in marathons. These elite athletes know exactly what splits they need to hit in order to run whatever time their aiming for. Let them compete against each other the way the rest of the field does!
couldn't run a mile to save my life, so I honestly have no clue about marathons. I don't understand how pacers work. I get why they are helpful for the "elite runner" but why is just the "elite runner" important? the pacer does exactly the same, right? is it like tourists being celebrated for climb Mount everest and noone mentions the sherpas carrying the equipment up there multiple times a season?
Keeping the pace in front is much harder than following a pacer. You conserved more energy by following from behind. If competing athletes couldn't win vs a handicapped pacer they didn't deserved to win that day.
Can someone explain why this shouldn't be done? Yeah, you got paid for pacing so you shouldn't compete, I get that. But, if you feel fresh and can outrun the other by that margin, you shouldn't feel bad. I'd like to know the opinion of the pro runners.
i think because pacers usually don't have a high endorsement contract, so the corporations sponsoring the athletes won't get much TV air-time during the interview or in newspaper-coverage :P all kidding aside (and i know the pacers were wearing Nike logos), i think the fastest person should win, and if that's the pacer (and he kept the pace he was paid for to run) then it's purely the other athletes fault..
As a pacer it is your job to push the athletes to reach their best times, not your best time. It would be like the pace car winning at F1. They are not in the race they are paid to help athletes that are.
i raced this race and it was a fucking amazing run .. the elite guys and gals outran us normies but a few of their pacers stuck with the group approx 5 min behind them at 10 km and they were really fun to run behind
Most of them aren’t good enough. Or will pace up a distance. Like they’ll bring in a world class 800m runner to take a 1500m runner through the first 1000 of a world record attempt. That 800m runner would have enough speed to run a 1500 but just can’t hold it out. Or they’ll bring in a guy who should in theory finish 15th and win no money and tell him. Look we’ll pay you x amount of money which is more than 0. And your job is to lead the race through 30k in 1:35-1:40. Then after 30k do what ever you want. And most of the time they’re cooked from pushing wind all day so they just pull off collect there check and go home.
That was hilarious. I imagine he looked back at some point and realized that no one was anywhere near him and he just said to himself "Screw it, I might as well go ahead and win this one."
“fine, I’ll do it myself” -thanos
Wasn't he supposed to keep the pace in stead of breaking away?
@@jayt3972 He kept the pace, the others didn't stay with him. he isn't supposed to slow down to whatever pace the athletes choose to run.
He looked embarrassed.
Probably made enough prize money to retire in kenya
"This could never happen at the Berlin Marathon" - this HAS happened at the Berlin Marathon! Pacer won in 2000, and the pacer finished 2nd in 2003. LA Marathon was won by a pacer too some years back. A pacer is a legit entrant in the race and is entitled to win if he can. A runner who does not take a pacer seriously deserves what they get.
You have a good memory, the LA marathon was won by a pacer in the 90's. He got a bran new Mercedes and the prize money. The top athletes objected like prima donas but to no avail. Cheers !
The fact that it happens so infrequently supports my point.......
Troy Cameron What point?
@@CM-ky5go
lol exactly
@Marina Mansfield
they are hired to run at a certain speed so that the actual runners have a point of reference.
Just an update on how his marathon running is going now: he doesn't get many pacing jobs because he's so good. Last year he improved upon his PB by placing fifth in the Valencia marathon with a time of 2:04:12. And now this year in Milan, he came second in a race with another personal best, this time a 2:03:55. That time would win most marathons, but the winner of the race, Titus Ekiru, ran the sixth fastest marathon ever recorded. Rueben Kiprop Kipyego is now the 20th fastest marathoner in history.
Good for him, what a legend.
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The professional Pacer that Can actually represent 99% of all countries in the marathon..except Kenya and Ethiopia. Absolute legend.
@@ballerinChrist why are you here even? no one wants this
That's really cool
"We want you to pace a two hour five minute marathon Ruben."
"OK boss"
Seems the rest of the field didn't get the message.
Usually even if they can win they still drop off tho lol
@@420jettt2 Of course, like in any paced race, the pacer should be instructed to ease up if the pack don't go with agreed pace. Maybe that message didn't get through Rueben.
@@musik102 In this case the strongest runner won, doesn't matter if he is the pacer or not. So if the others can't keep up, it's their problem.
@@Hans87Dampf Well, that depends on the instructions the pacer was given.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was always wondering when this would happen
Happened before but not in races of this magnitude.
same
Brazilian bronze medalist Vanderlei Cordeiro in 2002 olympics (he was leading, but was attacked) won Paris as a pacer, dont remember the year
Happened before few times
wont happen again... i doubt rueben is gonna have any friends after this one
He felt that he "failed" at his job and he didnt celebrate his "victory".Not many people on earth have experienced this kind of feelings.
Yeah noticed that, he seemed to raise his arms slightly, then drop them.
Look up Andrea Carrea, it's similar to this but in cycling.
Edit: misspelled the name, should be Carrea not Correa
ive experienced the feeling of failure trust me
To expand my Andrea Carrea comment:
He was a professional cyclist, and served as a domestique (instead of team captain). As a domestique, your goal is to help your team captain (usually the strongest rider) so he can win. As a domestique, the glory, the yellow jersey, is not for you, but for your captain. You grab his water bottle from the team car, you give him your bike if his broke down, etc.
During Stage 9 of Tour de France 1952, Carrea joined a breakaway group of eight to protect his leader's (Fausto Coppi) interests. After finishing the stage, he went to his hotel, but he got picked up by the local police. He thought he had done something wrong, but then he was informed that he's now the leader of the race.
"... I heard I had inherited a jersey destined for champions. For me, it was a terrible situation."
He burst into tears, and had to be dragged to the stage to receive the jersey. He cried as he accepted it, fearing retribution from his captain. When he met his captain afterwards at the hotel, he cried as he offered excuses.
"You must understand that I did not want this jersey, Fausto. I have no right to it. A poor man like me, the yellow jersey?"
Before the start of Stage 10, he posed for the media, polishing Coppi's shoes while wearing the yellow jersey.
Carrea was pleased that he lost the race lead that day. After Stage 10, the new yellow jersey owner, the leader of the race, is Fausto Coppi, Carrea's captain.
@@rahmatramadhan9874 not gonna lie that's kinda fucked up....
And he was running in front the whole time so it’s even more impressive as he was the one taking the wind all the time
He enjoyed a secret advantage. The actual racers were of the mindset to be lead on. Removing that advantage was a big psychological blow to these racers.
@@lazygamer7469 they were lead on... they are supposed to be elite runners so why cant they match the pace. if they cant keep up with the pacer then i think the pacer deserves the win, if he feels up to completing the whole race. its known that pacers can win races. He might as well let the other team win by slowing down for the runners.
@@lazygamer7469 it’s really not an advantage
The video said there were 3 pacers rotating so at least for part of the race he was only in the front 1/3 the time
@@zacharyneilson9220he still ran the whole thing
This happens fairly often...My running mate won the Houston Marathon in the 80’s. Got paid for pacing as well as the prizes... it’s totally legal.
Because it's legal it does not make it right!
@@troycameron337 what’s wrong with a pacer winning wtf
@@troycameron337 Why is it not right? If you let someone pull away you don't win. Participation trophy generation
@@troycameron337 Given that the pacer kept a consistent pace for the entire race, sure sounds like he was doing a bang up job of pacing the race. The "competitors" should have been able to stay with him.
@@buddhabunny4142 This is it right here. as long as the pacer did his "pacing" job correctly and came through in the times he was supposed to then he did nothing wrong. He burned more energy leading the race the entire time than the other runners so he deserves the win. If the "elite" runners cant keep up then they are not elite
The whole goal of a pacer is to pace to a win at their best ability he didn’t run out of gas so he wins that’s fair
The purpose of using a pacer is to ensure a fast time....a pacer is not expected to run the entire distance.... thats why is bib is mark PACER!
@@troycameron337 Did you even read the comment you replied to??
The role of a pacer is to set a specific pace that suits his teammate that he is pacing for, not to run as fast as he can lmao
@@troycameron337 you say he's not expected to run the entire distance. Would this not be because usually pacers aren't able to keep up with the main competititors for the entire distance, and they start slowing down? In this case the pacer held a fast, but stable and doable speed for the entire distance.
He did his job, it's not like he had a fluctuating speed or slowed the pack down. He just pushed for a good time, and the competititors just weren't good enough.
@@jnaylor4389 and Ruben followed pretty much dead on the time he was told to pace for before he started. He was actually told to pace for a 2:05 marathon. Which with 2:04:40 I would say he got dead on. That the people he was pacing for couldn't keep up isn't on him. And unless he got instructed during the race to start pacing for a different time (because the favourites couldn't keep up) then he did his job as a pacer just right.
This is literally the most literal race commentary ever.... Literally
Yeah no cap
Yes....literally
actually it literally actually is. Still appreciate it though.
Literally yes, literally in the most literal way that is literally possible… LITERALLY
yeah literally
Totally fair. He as the pacer for the world class competitors needed to run in a way that will lead and push the best to a fast but reasonable pace to finish the race with a world class time. Had he bailed out in the middle because he pushed too hard would be a different story. The fact that he won the race only shows that he did a perfect job but the others couldn't keep up.
Unfair from a psychological perspective...
Hey, as long as he performed his agreed upon roll of pacer, and it was the elites inability to keep up with the agreed pace that caused him to win, there's absolutely nothing unfair about it. It wasn't their day.
But he didn't keep the pace he supposed to.
@@gogoldiego He sped up before or after everyone dropped back? I agree it's not ok if he pushed the pace past what was agreed upon, resulting in them dropping. But if he sped up after, fair game.
@@Kelly_Ben he didn't even do that. Agreed upon pace that he was told to keep was to pace for a 2:05. Which with 2:04:40 he fot pretty much dead on. Just that some athletes didn't agree with that from the start. Since they thought 2:05 was too fast. Well it was for most of them. Except for Ruben.
Reuben just came in second in the Milano Marathon 2021 with a time of 2:03:55. I think they may have underestimated his abilities.
- Reuben, please pace a 2 hours 5 marathon. Is that ok for you?
- Yup, just follow me... Till the end.
Final exam in marathon theory:
Question 1:
Yes?
Answer:
Impressive.
Examiner: :O
I'm literally hyperventilating holy shit
Now that suprised me
Was looking for this comment haha, so confused
You can't even say he's a bad pacer because he finished the race at world class pace. Everyone else just wasn't fast enough.
3:40
The question is yes.
The answer is impressive.
..ok
Jeopardy: The answer is a question.
This Dude: The question is an answer
Lmao
Hahahahahaa you just made me laugh like a retard alone on my couch
Exactly! I was like, what?
This guy really needs to work on his narration. Very repetitive too.
If your a marathon runner, and your last name starts with “Kip” you’re going to win.
To be honest, "kip" can be in every place in your name and you'll be invincible.
I guess they just kip running untill they win...
Eluid kipchoge
@@andre_j67 i have heard of Eliud Kipchoge but who is Eluid Kipchoge?
@@braedinkolar8357 it is a ultra marathon runner
3:45 "The question is yes and the answer will surprise a lot of you" yeah that makes sense
"Hey, slow down, those guys are like a minute behind you"
"It's free prize money"
"literally competing like he was an athlete"
but he is an athlete
Yeah, the way that was phrased bothered me, but I think he clearly meant a "competing athlete."
Literally
Some people do not know how to use the word "literally" in a sentence.
Some people literally abuse the word literally in any literal way they can, literally LOL
* how
like literally
Yeah, they literally make us sick by overusing the word “literally”. I’ve told them a million times to stop exaggerating that way.
As a non native speaker like you know we often use like like you know it gives us something like a break like thinking for the missing word like you know
I literally died hearing it.
He did his job, just a little too well. He was told to pace a certain speed and he did exactly that. A good win for him!
Next video: Marathon pacer breaks marathon record.
If the pacer is Kipchoge, then yes😆
@@wakimura303 or Bekele ?
@@icedtea7700 maybe
He was around 30 seconds off the race record.
@@nachobroryan8824 2 secondes actually
Sometimes the rabbit gets away. Great run and the best athlete won on the day.
World class time in that heat.
He’s the perfect pace maker. He can pace your marathon at 2:04 and will never drop out
They mistakenly gave him the wrong bib, and the real pacer was never discover
Is that just your conspiracy?
@@Michael-yf4de he is joking
@@kylemalachowski bro he is kidding
I am a Kenyan and I'm so proud of this man, he's not even sweating!!!
And he didn't even need water afterwards lol
hes not sweating cause its so hot that your sweat evaporates really fast.
@@gustavocornelio5605 bro have you been outside before?
We got one “literally” for every mile of the marathon lol.
edit: joking aside, great content man.
Great video - in spite of the narrator’s
almost criminal use of the word “literally”
“he literally crushed the field”
“he literally dropped the field”
“he could literally see the finish”
(as opposed to just seeing the finish)
5:06 I think he figured the pacer dropped out and he was in first when he finished 😅
Hahahah
Didnt expect to see you here
If he was first he would have seen the ladies hold the tape lol
@@hami7050 haha
What it's linkmon WHAT
You could literally say that he literally won this marathon. Literally incredible.
This literal person was literally a pacer yet he literally won the race
@@Hendurik 😂
lit comment
0:02 organizer pretending to be an elite kenyan runner
and again at 4:58
😂
about which one are you talking about ? cant spot a organizer there
Now he needs a pacer of his own.
If he can run like that, he doesnt need a pacer.
Literally man
Who Eliot? 😂 only only one can do that
"Hey bro, you need to slow down."
3:40 the question is yes and the answer will impress you”😂
„People were wondering if he could legally win the race. The question is yes and the answer will be impressive”
When the question is "yes", if someone manages to come up with an answer, it's impressive!
@@beorlingo I guess you're right
If u cant beat a pacer then u dont deserve to win
Pacers are like "motivational" personal trainers. They run right next to you the whole way to push you to your limits. Sometimes they beat you and other times you beat them, its all fair game! Impressive still.
They also act as windbreakers for the runners
I had a friend who knew someone who did this. Paced a marathon, turned around halfway and saw that no one was behind him so he got the prize money and the money for pacing
Yes, the first half is for the pacer money and the second half is for the prize money. The organisers can't complain. They got a fast marathon. Not to mention extra exposure. I watched this video multiple times.
You have literally overused the word literally in this video to the point of nausea.
His mind boggled so much he lost track to other words in his private thesaurus.
Give the man some literal credit. He is not called "pacer Rueben", it's literally Reuben Kiprop Kipyego.
A Literally goes a long way
Long live pacer Reuben!
Holy cow! This was in a Japanese comic book. That pacer later became the king of the marathon and dominated the sport for years.
MARATHON MAN
Pacer : guy's lets run a 2:05 marathon
Racer's: nah fam thats dumb
Pacer : fine i will do it myself
You need to get someone to write you a better script mate, lol
Literally literally literally
The question is yes, and the answer might shock you
“Loners, on their own, by themselves” 😜
Paul Pilkington won as a pacer at the LA Marathon in 1994, His prize money as an American, a pace setter and won car value totaled about 65K. He ran 2:12,. Good for Ruben. Its not his fault if no one stayed with him. Besides, as you stated-pacers are no slouches-he had an incredible resume in his own right.
He had to set a 2:05 pace, and 42 km + running later, he finishes in 2:04:40. How do they keep such time?
Back in college I could pace others at 4:54 pace consistently to the second for up to 4 miles. Its possible. You develop an internal pace clock.
Imagine being paid as a pacer and win the marathon, it's a double pay day
Yes, and that's alright, the organizers wanted a fast race, and the pacee delivered the sub 2:05 time
He paced all the way, And what a fair pace it was.
This is runners high.
I think i felt this twice in my life. Once on a treadmill and once outside. My body felt unstoppable and fast and i felt like i could go on forever.
ive had this once in my life, unfortunately it was in a team race with the cadets and we were timed as a group I was trying to up the pace for my group coz I felt unstoppable, I ended up breaking off and running the fastest time of the whole contest however the timer stops when the last person from your group crosses the line so it wasn't officials but I'll never forget this moment
2nd man: "Why I not win?"
Reuben Pacer : 😁🤣🤣
When I watched this video, I was absolutely shocked to see the result. The mind blowing result of this race was literally In Abu Dhabi.
Literally
Absolutely shocked. Mind blowing. Literally.
"You wouldn't see this at a high profile marathon like Berlin"...except that the same thing happened in Berlin in 2000 when Simon Biwott of Kenya won (he entered the race as a pacer).
Here's a combination of words I'd never thought I'd hear in this order: The question is yes and the answer will be impressive and surprise a lot of you. 3:40
“Yes” is not a question.
“The question is yes, and the answer will be impressive and surprise you” what?? 😂
Props to him. He looks back at the end, like WTF guys where did you go.
hes all gangsta till kipchoge gets released out of nowhere
He wasn’t even top 3 his last race kid
Little shocking, I'm sure he made some enemies that day.
True
Buahahahahahhahaha
Enemies or friends ,he got it
That's what I thinking! 🙄 I wonder will he get to keep the money?
He also made 100k 😁
I literally enjoyed this!
Sweet! There is nothing like the sport of running. It is the great equalizer. 12/16/2020
Great video telling a great story. Rare find. You explained it in a way that non runners could understand as well. W video for sure.
I think it is hard to understand just how close these athletes are in terms of who can win. A marathon is a long race, just getting a rock in a shoe can cause you to get blisters which ruin the rest of the run. So many factors. The pacer had a great day, not just a good day, the pace was on point, he had a good rhythm, super cool to see people run the best races of their lives.
This video is a great example of how to make an essay longer without actually saying anything else.
Literally! I was actually going to literally say this, but then you actually said it!
This is what being on what you are striving for looks like then you take a look back. Congrats!!!!!
The pacer has no pressure to compete...and has nothing to loose...that effects his mind and body to relax...
thank you I love your work and you channel as marathon runner appreciate great videos
"Literally" has come to mean actually, incredibly, really, surprisingly and literally everything but "literally"'.
I have absolutely no problem with this. He qualified for the race. He was trained to be at pace for X amount of miles until he burned out and let the elites take over that drafted behind him and were not yet burned out. He did his job as a pacer and exceeded his job as a pacer and it is not at all his fault that the elites could not keep up with his 26.2 mile pace. Honestly that is more impressive that an elite winning that race, because his job was to be a pacer and he had to deal with less help during the entire race. More power to him, he deserves that win 100%. All the elites should congratulate the crap out of him. Nothing at all is wrong with what he did besides put on one hell of an impressive show. 2:04 is about as elite as it gets... Looks like he needs to reconsider his job title after that one ;).
He slept for exactly 8 hours
5' 45" "..keeping them on track using his Garmin gps watch.....", well, he did not even wear a watch, not just Garmin !
I was today years old when i learned that marathons are paced.
The 2016 Mumbai Marathon was won by Gideon Kipketer who was a pace-setter.
At 4:19 the freaking bystander took a selfie but he was too fast. Lmao
3:40 "The question is yes" ??
everyone : are you a pacer, or a racer?!
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Rueben : yes.
I don’t think he’s a going to be a pacer any more. A 2:04 is no joke. The “Rocky” of running.
i agree.. companies should start endorsing him after such an achievement. (and it's good PR for being able to say "we signed the pacer that won in Abu Dhabi").
I didnt know pacers were allowed to compete for podium positions, thats news to me. I had always seen pacers drop out halfway through races, this is the first time ive ever seen a pacer run a complete marathon.
I just learned sonething today.... never knew anything about "Pacers" or that they existed
“The climate was beginning to heat up”. What? 🤣
But what a god given beautiful running form man. It's just perfect!
This is literally the definition of someone taking a couple sentences and turning it into their thousand word essay minimum.
And yes I used literally correctly.
Wow! I'm not a runner and can only assume what a pacer is; but great content you have here! Enjoyed it a lot ;) keep working and sharing, thanks!
A pacer is there to essentially help the competitors pushing but not too fast so they don’t gas out. But not to slow when they can do better. They run either right in front of right at the heels usually.
Kenyans leading the world in running ❤️
Disclaimer: No pacer was harmed in the making of this video
As someone who has run sixty marathons in my lifetime ( none with a pacer ) I would submit that there shouldn’t even be pacers in marathons. These elite athletes know exactly what splits they need to hit in order to run whatever time their aiming for. Let them compete against each other the way the rest of the field does!
couldn't run a mile to save my life, so I honestly have no clue about marathons. I don't understand how pacers work. I get why they are helpful for the "elite runner" but why is just the "elite runner" important? the pacer does exactly the same, right? is it like tourists being celebrated for climb Mount everest and noone mentions the sherpas carrying the equipment up there multiple times a season?
@@chrstiania the pacer usually just runs the fast pace for half the race usually not the full race
If I came in second place my reaction to the pacer would be: “you do you boo”😂
Keeping the pace in front is much harder than following a pacer. You conserved more energy by following from behind. If competing athletes couldn't win vs a handicapped pacer they didn't deserved to win that day.
3:38 ‘the question is yes and answer will surprise you’ lol
One of the best distance running stories ever. I was always wondering if these things could really happen :).
COOL! This happened some years ago in Barcelona Marathon too!
Please make videos of your own running and time trials we love it👍
3:40 The question is: yes. And the answer will be impressive and surprise a lot of you.
Can someone explain why this shouldn't be done? Yeah, you got paid for pacing so you shouldn't compete, I get that. But, if you feel fresh and can outrun the other by that margin, you shouldn't feel bad. I'd like to know the opinion of the pro runners.
i think because pacers usually don't have a high endorsement contract, so the corporations sponsoring the athletes won't get much TV air-time during the interview or in newspaper-coverage :P
all kidding aside (and i know the pacers were wearing Nike logos), i think the fastest person should win, and if that's the pacer (and he kept the pace he was paid for to run) then it's purely the other athletes fault..
As a pacer it is your job to push the athletes to reach their best times, not your best time. It would be like the pace car winning at F1. They are not in the race they are paid to help athletes that are.
@Audit Rewind are your old runnning videos available anywhere, Brandon? :(
The power of NOFAP
Nice
He’s on a 100+ streak no doubt
AYOOO 15 and 4 days strong i keep failing after a week tho
@@loganmccarthy9362 one day you'll get it my friend, one day
Haha
LOL I've waited so long for something like this to happen. This is great!
i raced this race and it was a fucking amazing run .. the elite guys and gals outran us normies but a few of their pacers stuck with the group approx 5 min behind them at 10 km and they were really fun to run behind
This is a beautiful race you are a lucky man
Good on you racen Rubin your a legend now mate so impressive
So impressive. He deffenetly had a great race
Ok question I'm new to this distance running thing. So if Pacers are good enough to win races why don't they go compete like the other athletes?
Most of them aren’t good enough. Or will pace up a distance. Like they’ll bring in a world class 800m runner to take a 1500m runner through the first 1000 of a world record attempt. That 800m runner would have enough speed to run a 1500 but just can’t hold it out. Or they’ll bring in a guy who should in theory finish 15th and win no money and tell him. Look we’ll pay you x amount of money which is more than 0. And your job is to lead the race through 30k in 1:35-1:40. Then after 30k do what ever you want. And most of the time they’re cooked from pushing wind all day so they just pull off collect there check and go home.
@@sk1ppercat912 thank you
It’s so crazy how theyre barely even sweating
That's the true meaning of pacing till the end. You never pace backwards!!!