For all the hard work of scores of experts, the skill of taking in fuel while pushing physical limits wasn’t honed enough before Monza. The main lesson is obvious: Practicing matters.
The drive for a sub-two time is fascinating and, while Kipchoge’s bid won’t make the official record books because of the methods used, there are lessons to be learnt for everyday runners from his efforts. Optimal drafting formations have been studied, aerodynamics and weather experts from professional cycling and sailing engaged, and the course in the Austrian capital picked for its consistent conditions. (Photo: Bob Martin/ London Marathon Events)Ī team of elite pacemakers-including Paul Chelimo and Bernard Lagat-have been signed up for the run which is scheduled for October 12. Pace makers test the technology during the planning preparations for the INEOS 1.59 Challenge. Kipchoge’s marathon-running success (he’s won 11 of the 12 races he’s competed in) has earned him impressive support again for the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna. And it’s not like the Nike Breaking2 team failed to pay attention to his fueling-he just didn’t get good enough at it, according to Trouw. Kipchoge had some of the best minds in sports science poring over every possible performance factor two years ago, but he finished 26 seconds short of his sub-two-hour target. “He practiced more in training and it has already worked in big city marathons.” No Stones Unturned “He gets his drink every 5km so that when he comes to racing his body is already used to getting it in,” Trouw says. Since Breaking2, Kipchoge’s team has taken fluid intake more seriously, simulating their race strategy in his long runs of 21 to 25 miles (35 to 40km).
“It was simply too hard for him at that high pace.” “Eliud’s fueling will be a little bit different from Monza in 2017, because we realized there the drinking wasn’t good enough-he didn’t get in enough,” says his long-term manager Valentijn Trouw. For all his laudable qualities and hard work, it seems even the great Kenyan-who will make his second all-out bid to break two hours next month in Vienna-can err in his preparations. Just ask Eliud Kipchoge, the fastest man over 26.2 miles on the planet. Deciding what to focus on most when you are training towards a hoped-for landmark marathon performance can be a tricky business.
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