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> It's to do with the purpose of the running. Eliud Kipchoge only broke 2 hours because of the shoes he was wearing That’s a vast oversimplification.
by iamacyborg 5mo ago
> It's to do with the purpose of the running. Eliud Kipchoge only broke 2 hours because of the shoes he was wearing
That’s a vast oversimplification.
- frereubu 5mo agoOK, let me put it another way. Do you think Kipchoge would have broken two hours if he'd been wearing trainers with technology from five years ago?
- iamacyborg 5mo agoMaybe? Like, the shoes are certainly a contribution factor, but you're basically talking about stacking multiple 0.1 percenters at that point, which one tipped things over the line is hard to say, and you obviously have to account for the fact that Kipchoge is a genetic freak (like all top athletes) with a couple decades of consistent training behind him and a team hell-bent on finding all incremental gains they can. That period also saw significant improvements in fuelling strategy, amongst other things.