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Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

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aucisson_masque wrote: post #359
aembleton wrote: post #270

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> You don't need 'advanced' gel to do that, a bottle of water with 120g of white sugar an hour. Did you carry all of these bottles on a marathon? Did you have to stop to get them out of your bag? How did you find drinking whilst running? I find gels much more compact and for the amount of time I need to run one - over 4 hours there's a lot of weight I need to carry. I can store a lot of them up front in my running ve…

> I find gels much more compact and for the amount of time I need to run one - over 4 hours there's a lot of weight I need to carry. I can store a lot of them up front in my running vest and keep going. I believe he had people from his staff handing him gels and water at designated point in his race. He wouldn't have to carry it all. And I don't get why my solution of water + sugar is so bad. You're still going to dr…

You get given water during races, and you don't need a support team for that to happen. There are people handing them out at set locations, so there's no need to carry all of that with you. You often get gels too and its worth training with that brand that they are giving out so that your gut is ready for it, but you can't rely on them because they do sometimes run out.

I've never seen them run out of water though, and it would be a lot to carry for a marathon.

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aucisson_masque wrote: post #360
LanceH wrote: post #309

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It pains me that running, track, and cycling are "notorious" for doping, but the major sports don't test at any practical level compared to the "dirty" sports.

Any sport, at high levels, definitely involve performance enhancing drugs. Even ping pong, Adderall can be a tremendous help. It's just that the other sports don't test as much, they are not worst or better.

That's my point. The major US and European sports don't really test, but the weight of PED blame falls on things like cycling and track.
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