{"id":16644,"date":"2016-08-21T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16644"},"modified":"2016-08-21T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T14:50:34","slug":"lets-run-two-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16644","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s run two of them!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Sub-Four Minute Mile - Sir Roger Bannister - Guinness World Records 60th Anniversary\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ku1vdrWQuJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video shows Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4-minute mile barrier.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred in 1955 and after he finished the race,\u00a0Sir Roger all but collapsed from exhaustion into the arms of his handlers and admirers.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to show this because I just watched the end of the marathon race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya won the event in 2 hours and 8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He just ran <em>26 miles, 385 yards!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So help me, he looked like he could have kept going another 26-plus miles!<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who is utterly\u00a0amazed at the\u00a0stamina of these marathoners?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4-minute mile barrier. It occurred in 1955 and after he finished the race,\u00a0Sir Roger all but collapsed from exhaustion into the arms of his handlers and admirers. I wanted to show this because I just watched the end of the marathon race at the Rio de Janeiro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s run two of them!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6516,3960,6517],"class_list":["post-16644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-marathon","tag-rio-olympics","tag-roger-bannister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16646,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644\/revisions\/16646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}