Sub-Two Sabastian Sawe

[Sabastian Sawe flew into the record books.] Before yesterday, the fastest marathon ever raced was Kelvin Kiptum’s 2023 Chicago run, where the late phenom put up a 2:00:35. You might also remember Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59:40.2, which he ran in a non-sanctioned event purpose-built to break the two hour mark. Both of those were amazing feats. Now, however, there is a new mark. On Sunday, Sabastian Sawe of Kenya dropped an astonishing 1:59:30 in the London Marathon. This shattered the previous race record by over a minute, and even managed to beat Kipchoge’s controlled time by a solid 10 seconds. I’ve been waiting and watching for a sub-two hour marathon, and now I’m delighted to see it accomplished. Just look at Sawe go: A blur of Sabastian Sawe breaking the tape in 1:59:30[Still frame from a video by FloTrack] When writing about Eliud Kipchoge’s 2018 world record time of 2:01:39, I said: He ran a mile in 4:38, and then did it 25 more times after that, and then still ran another 2/10ths of…