Kiplimo is the real deal. Mantz isn’t. He is almost 1km behind now. So much for bicarb and supershoes, you can’t beat genes and low radio frequency zones in Kapchorwa.
What are you yapping about, what low radio frequency zones, do you believe that over blood doping? That’s crazy, Tadej Pogacar would be laughing hard at you and he’s a stratosphere above Kiplimo
Sweetheart, if you don’t like certain comments due to your ignorance you can skip it and let others learn from it instead. People like me a physicist habitually imbibe RF knowledge due to a much more erudite background in this area and I can attest that man made electromagnetic fields are indeed VERY neurotoxic on the nervous system of a high performance athlete. The smaller and more abstract the poison the wider and larger the pool of harm in space and time!
I suspect the drafting helped a lot more than the bicarb. He was close behind the lead car for most of it.
There have been some studies on drafting, for running in formations (sub 2h attempt etc). Long story short: maximum advantage was calculated 154s on the marathon distance (2.34 min). The draft of a car just a few meters in front of the runner should be even higher than an ideal formation (by the way, the role of the huge timing device on top of the lead car at the sub2 event has been noted at the time). So the effect is real and should be taken seriously and avoided for fair comparisons between record times.
Right now there are rules for labelled road running events concerning the lead car. As: the car should not obstruct the view for the runners on the shortest line for the course. But nothing on the minimum distance between the lead car and the leading runners.
He was running very close to the lead car untill 55 minutes. At those speeds the effect of drafting is huge.
There have been some studies on drafting, for running in formations (sub 2h attempt etc). Long story short: maximum advantage was calculated 154s on the marathon distance (2.34 min). The draft of a car just a few meters in front of the runner should be even higher than an ideal formation (by the way, the role of the huge timing device on top of the lead car at the sub2 event has been noted at the time). So the effect is real and should be taken seriously and avoided for fair comparisons between record times.
Right now there are rules for labelled road running events concerning the lead car. As: the car should not obstruct the view for the runners on the shortest line for the course. But nothing on the minimum distance between the lead car and the leading runners.
He was running very close to the lead car untill 55 minutes. At those speeds the effect of drafting is huge.
I just saw portions of the race. It was 15-20meters on average and there was no V formation from supporting cast athletes flanking him like in kipchoge’s 1:59 project.
I suspect the drafting helped a lot more than the bicarb. He was close behind the lead car for most of it.
There have been some studies on drafting, for running in formations (sub 2h attempt etc). Long story short: maximum advantage was calculated 154s on the marathon distance (2.34 min). The draft of a car just a few meters in front of the runner should be even higher than an ideal formation (by the way, the role of the huge timing device on top of the lead car at the sub2 event has been noted at the time). So the effect is real and should be taken seriously and avoided for fair comparisons between record times.
Right now there are rules for labelled road running events concerning the lead car. As: the car should not obstruct the view for the runners on the shortest line for the course. But nothing on the minimum distance between the lead car and the leading runners.
Hogwash ☺️☺️
that timing device isn’t even aerodynamic and being square would cause quantum esque turbulence in the aftermath space-time behind it which would be disadvantageous for the athlete running in it. The only advantage the pace car had for Kiplimo is a wave light aid!! He just needs to keep pace and follow the car the whole way, very little to do with drafting.
Joshua Cheptegei mentioned he doesn’t use bicarb nor Maurten bicarb so the same must apply to kiplimo. Ugandans can be trusted to be clean or are cleaner than Kenyans. Ethiopians too. The only explanation left to explain 56:41 is talent and genetics and increasingly many are saying due to lack of radio frequency in Kapchorwa. Very good nurture and adaptation when there is little RF.
Maybe cleaner than the Kenyans, but that's not saying a lot. The fact is that the Italians and Spanish flocked to Uganda as soon as testing was tightened up in Kenya, and Uganda immediately became a world force.
There are currently three Ugandans serving suspensions.
Kiplimo’s performance should not be surprising after that 10k record attempt where he paced Aregawi. It was clear then Kiplimo was in supreme condition and could have run faster.
Kiplimo will definitely be the first to run sub 2 marathon in race.
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