“If you want to go fast go alone, but if you want to go far, go together,” says the famous maxim, which proves to be a helpful rule of thumb familiar to anyone who has found themselves on never-ending journeys in an Uber Pool. In fact, lessons from a champion marathoner might suggest that such epithets can give us an insight into understanding human resilience.
Eliud Kipchoge is the winner of the last two Olympic gold medals in the marathon, and is regarded as the greatest ever competitor at the distance, holding the world record of 2:01:09. In 2019 in conditions that were a touch too engineered for speed to satisfy record keepers he broke the two-hour barrier, completing the distance in a dazzling one hour 59 and 40 seconds.
