Dear me (shakes head) crying over a man running a sub 2hrs 26mile specially selected flat course wearing specially made shoes, in perfectly chosen weather and time conditions with specially concocted drinks delivered by bike to his hand whilst being shielded from the vagaries of wind resistance by 40 elite runners taking turns in specially designed formations behind a vehicle marking out with lasers the paths runner and pacemakers should follow.
That's no true marathon. It's as valid as a falsified passport. Looks good but doesn't bear scrutiny.
Any one of those pacemakers could have done it under the same conditions.
Vanity running, like paying to publish your own book.