Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
This was done with:
- full on pack drafting (draft benefit of a pack is 70% in cycling, so probably at least in the 20% range at running speeds
- laser-guided least distance path
- all nutrition and liquids delivered by rotating cast of drafters<p>I've also seen no details on the drug controls, which even with biological passport are weak. The liklihood this record didn't involve EPO microdosing at a minimum is very unlikely.<p>Distance records took a massive hammering as EPO became prevalent (it could not be tested initially and still is very difficult to detect using microdosing), and the records are still falling.<p>Such was the drop in times from EPO use that there is little chance a bunch of training techniques were invented to compensate for its effects.<p>People are still on it using microdosing and other drugs. There was a british journalist that willingly went on EPO microdosing with biological passport to personally test if he would have been caught.<p>Answer: nope.<p>There has also been a cycling magazine writer that went on HGH, steroids, and EPO to test each of them out. EPO was a ludicrous advantage.<p>But... news headline justifies everything.