Thats because he was running away from the cops!

So not quite. He is the record holder but it's not for under 2hrs. His record is 2:01:39. His recent run in Vienna was under 2hrs at 1:59:40 but it doesn't count as an official record because standard competition rules for pacing and fluids weren’t followed making it ineligible for official records. Still it's a race 26.2 miles long and that's ^ freaking fast I don't care whether it's official or not. What's really interesting is for the Men's World Record holders the top 24 are all from Kenya or Ethiopia. en.wikipedia . org/wiki/Marathon