{"id":5599,"date":"2017-05-07T05:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T05:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","slug":"how-to-run-the-fastest-marathon-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/how-to-run-the-fastest-marathon-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run the fastest marathon ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Some fascinating techniques](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/may\/06\/eliud-kipchoge-misses-out-on-sub-two-hour-marathon-by-2-seconds):<\/p>\n<p>> At the start the three athletes were immediately joined by six pacers, who adopted an arrowhead formation behind a Tesla electric car with a giant clock timer on it. Wind tunnel studies show that this formation would help them as it saves energy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> Kipchoge was also using a new carbohydrate-rich sports drink, delivered by helpers on mopeds so he did not have to slow down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> Then there was the use of Nike\u2019s Zoom Vaporfly Elite shoes, which some have suggested should be illegal because they contain a special curved plate that allows runners to roll through instead of bending toes and losing energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Some fascinating techniques](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/may\/06\/eliud-kipchoge-misses-out-on-sub-two-hour-marathon-by-2-seconds): > At the start the three athletes were immediately joined by six pacers, who adopted an arrowhead formation behind a Tesla electric car with a giant clock timer on it. Wind tunnel studies show that this formation would help them as it saves energy&#8230; > Kipchoge was also using a new carbohydrate-rich&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/how-to-run-the-fastest-marathon-ever\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,371],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-health-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}