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    Film Chronicles The Road To The 2-Hour Marathon: It's 'Just 25 Seconds Away'

    by Mary Louise Kelly Sep 20, 2017 2 minutes
    A team of elite runners acted as pacers and decreased wind resistance for Eliud Kipchoge, right, as he attempted a sub-two-hour marathon in Monza, Italy on May 6, 2017.

    Can a human run a marathon in two hours flat? The documentary Breaking2 follows three elite runners as they attempt to break one of the most famous barriers in sport — maintaining 26.2 four-minute, 34-second miles.

    One of those runners, Olympic gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge, came 25 seconds shy of the two-hour mark with a time of 2:00:25. "The world now is just 25 seconds away," Kipchoge

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