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This Team Of Runners Is Chasing An Audacious Goal: A 2-Hour Marathon
Resume![Runners (left to right) Lelisa Desisa, Eliud Kipchoge and Zersenay Tadese of Nike's Breaking2 project. (Courtesy Nike)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1216_two-hour-marathon-1000x563.jpg)
Nike has assembled a team of three runners who are now training for a very special race: they're going to try to run a marathon — 26.2 miles — in two hours or less.
The Breaking2 project will stage the race sometime next spring, and the goal is audacious. A two-hour marathon would be nearly three minutes faster than the current world record.
This segment aired on December 16, 2016.