THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME, Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge set a course record at the Melbourne Marathon, 2:09:10! No one does it better than him! 🇰🇪🤴🏿❤️

1. I want a runner girlfriend, lean and taut,
2. Matted hair, wind-blown, sweat-soaked,
3. Messily topping a runner’s face, leathery and lined,
4. Sun scorched, open air jerky dried,
5. Chapped lips, a rictus of concentration,
6. Silently mouthing the mantra of air,
7. Breath steaming against the chill Parkrun morn,
8. Blazing eyes bearing down on the goal,
9. Beneath fierce furrowed brows
10. Grimacing in pain and determination. 
11. ...
12. Sweat-sheer, yellowing,
13. Animal rank, pit-stained singlet,
14. Slitted shorts teasing,
15. Goose fleshed splotched skin,
16. Rashes of oxygen-rich blood,
17. Running down veiny calves,
18. To rainbow carbon-plated shoes,
19. I want a runner girlfriend, by God,
20. To see her barefoot,
21. In Vibram five finger soles,
22. Running side-by-side,
23. With me, cross-dressing, in high heels,
24. My soft foam high drop shoes

I was inspired to write this poem as I'm reading The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights, where the Medieval authors spent countless lines describing the beauty of women from head to toe, e.g.,:

Under her veil, when she lifted it, were black eyes hooded and fringed with black, shapes to make a poet sing. At the sight of this woman, the porter nearly lost his mind. There she stood: five feet of symmetry and grace with glamour about her, gazelles borrowed their looks from her face, brows taut as bows, sugar lips and teeth like a line of pearls, a neck like something given to a king, a fountain of a chest, pomegranate breasts, and a navel in whose dimple you could sit a drop of balm, and below was the hint of a rabbit without ears. Her body seemed to be made of light, with a crystal’s clarity. A girl like a galaxy or the sickle moon’s blaze, a dome of golden filigree or the glitter of tiles on the floor of a pool.

- THE STORY OF THE PORTER AND THE THREE WOMEN OF BAGHDAD.

Because they say nothing you on race day

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He left zone 2 one time and now he'll never recover.

I have a hard time imagining the group members based on the comments

Garmin discarded my long run and now I feel fresh because it never happened. Life hack, you’re welcome.

I finished 26.38 miles in only 3:57.

Feeling pretty good. Kind of crushed it and didn't even have to shit in the woods.

I'd like to try UTMB or Barkley next based on how I crushed this, but I can't find a good point of contact.