Robert Craddock

Oh, it's a red letter moment, Gerard.

Hey, just to get a feel of this, Gerard, I went out in my car about 20 minutes ago.

and drove around my suburb at 21 kilometres an hour.

Yes.

And that's swift when you think of a human, not for a car.

But I looked to my right and I imagined him running because that was the speed he averaged for two hours.

Oh, my goodness, mate.

Gerard, I'm trying to put this in layman's language and this is the best I can come up with.

You know that little song, crazy little thing called Love by Queen?

It goes for two minutes and about 50 seconds.

Well, if you played it now, by the time they ended, he would have run a kilometre.

That's what he was doing for his kilometres, two minutes 50.

Now, imagine do that 42 in a row for the marathon.

I mean, he was flying.

And athletics is in a wonderful place.

But, Gerard, the fascinating subplot to this is,

is that 140 Kenyan runners in recent times have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

So his sponsors, Adidas, said we've got to get ahead of the game here, as his management team did, because they feel he's clean.

And before the recent Berlin Marathon, he got tested, and wait for this, 25 times, his blood and his urine.

Can you imagine that disruption to your life when they're turning up at 4 a.m.?