But if he hadn't looked around and waved his arms about in celebration for the last mile and a half he'd have gone sub-two minutes...
To put Gebrselassie's accomplishment in perspective: his pace works out to a bit faster than 4:45 per mile. You have to be an elite runner to run even one mile at that pace, let alone 26+.
Here's his 2007 record on YouTube, and here's the last couple of miles from the new record (both with German commentary).
There is some pretty serious editing happening on this thread. Calls the integrity of this site into question.
After I fixed Spitztengle's link, a couple of comments didn't make sense any more so they were deleted. You can see them on the deleted comments page.
