2 hours
lol. I was totally going to say that!
What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
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Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#52with regard to Berlin, weather, etc... - my meager experience of recreational runner matches it exactly - the best environment to run has been near Baltic Sea during Fall, soft, cool, almost mist air which cools you off and is absorbed by lungs without strain. The article doesn't mention humidity - it shouldn't be too heavy, yet dry air wouldn't work that well with lungs.
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#53This is an impressive amount of effort put into making the content unreadable. I sort of get what they're going for with the fade-in of content as you scroll down (although it's distracting as hell for actually reading rather than just looking at it), but what would possess someone to think that fading out text as I scroll down was a good idea? Crazily enough I like to be able to read more than two sentences without…
Maybe it's time to update this for the second decade of the 21st century: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
See also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#54Better drugs than they are currently on. Nobody wants to admit it, but that is the real reason for the change in inflection of the line. See cycling.
What will drugs give them though? As the article says, the perfect runner will be light, short, have long legs, insane VO2 max, good heat dissipation, low oxygen requirements. Apart from blood doping to increase VO2 max, what can one do to improve those other things?
I think one of the main areas of interest would be raising lactate threshold to delay OBLA. That's the main limit/inhibitor for endurance events.
I'd expect the next generation of drugs will focus on things like improving monocarboxylate transporter throughput/efficiency.
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#55So much thought was put into the design and yet nobody bothered to add an option on whether you want to see units in standard or american measures. It's 2014, can't you people just detect I'm not american and put up normal Centigrade, km, kg, etc?
Why are HN posts so pedantic? Bruce Lee has a great quote for this
I think that if you use the metric system you should develop a ten hour day - and a 100 minute hour - and a 100 second minute. Without that, Imperial units are best - right?
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#56No need to read the article, we know exactly what it will take: someone to run 13.1mph for two hours.
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#57So much thought was put into the design and yet nobody bothered to add an option on whether you want to see units in standard or american measures. It's 2014, can't you people just detect I'm not american and put up normal Centigrade, km, kg, etc?
"What will it take to run a 7.2 kilosecond marathon?"
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#58Better drugs than they are currently on. Nobody wants to admit it, but that is the real reason for the change in inflection of the line. See cycling.
Distance running isn't about power like cycling is.
Distance Cycling is far more about endurance than a 2+h marathon. EX: Tour de france ~90h over 21 days. http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/overall-route.html
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#59Better drugs than they are currently on. Nobody wants to admit it, but that is the real reason for the change in inflection of the line. See cycling.
What will drugs give them though? As the article says, the perfect runner will be light, short, have long legs, insane VO2 max, good heat dissipation, low oxygen requirements. Apart from blood doping to increase VO2 max, what can one do to improve those other things?
Quickly skimming the drug cocktails tour de france competitors take will answer your question.
But, as sibling answers say, decreased training recovery times is incredibly important. Steroids also protect your joints -- they are an anti-inflammatory. Runners' knees, ankles, and spines take a pounding.
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#60Berlin, Dubai, Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Chicago, and London.
In 4 of those cities they have no idea what a degree Fahrenheit is.
It is a good idea to be able to choose between different units. Most of the world does not use imperial units is something that lots of people forget.