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 draftersI'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.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.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.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.Answer: nope.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.But... news headline justifies everything.