Madame Marathon has had her teeth kicked in over recent decades. An event that once struck fear in the hearts of brave combatants has been turned into… Read more “BRING BACK RACING”
Tag: Eliud Kipchoge
GEARED FOR THE DISTANCE – NO WORLD RECORD IN BERLIN 2021
What effort for this pace? That is the question every athlete has to answer in the marathon. And when we control the effort, funny how that dovetails… Read more “GEARED FOR THE DISTANCE – NO WORLD RECORD IN BERLIN 2021”
IT’S AN AGE-OLD QUESTION
Taken on its merits, Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon career will have been the bridge spanning the 2:00:00 marathon barrier. After his 2:02:37 win in London 2019, his top… Read more “IT’S AN AGE-OLD QUESTION”
THE MARATHON PROJECT DELIVERS THE GOODS
After yesterday’s The Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona (Dec. 20, 2020), NYTimes writer/runner Lindsay Crouse tweeted, “If I were wealthy first I would give a lot of money to… Read more “THE MARATHON PROJECT DELIVERS THE GOODS”
CHEPTEGEI’S MARATHON FUTURE
With World Athletics scrapping the 5000m and 10,000m from its Diamond League circuit, it has fallen to individual event organizers to maintain allegiance to these historic… Read more “CHEPTEGEI’S MARATHON FUTURE”
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Sport is an emotionally freighted activity, full of sound and fury signifying – oftentimes – quite a bit. With the Coronavirus scrambling the sporting calendar, we now… Read more “AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION”
RIPPLE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE 2020 FALL MARATHON SEASON
For a long, long time, we have marked the passage of time by the designations Anno Domini (A.D.) and Before Christ (B.C.), with A.D. first coming into… Read more “RIPPLE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE 2020 FALL MARATHON SEASON”
CONTROVERSIAL CONUNDRUMS
Though only used for four years in competition, the Nike Vaporfly family of shoes is already firmly rooted in distance running history. Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid… Read more “CONTROVERSIAL CONUNDRUMS”
TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Many of the questions roiling the sport of Athletics these days lie in the realms of redeveloping fan interest, meet restructuring, and performance enhancement, be it via… Read more “TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN, THAT IS THE QUESTION”
SUB-2:30 WOMEN’S MARATHONS 2019
While much of the attention throughout the marathon year of 2019 focused on Eliud Kipchoge’s metronomic 1:59:40 exhibition in Vienna at the INEOS Challenge – and the shoes… Read more “SUB-2:30 WOMEN’S MARATHONS 2019”
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