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He'll also had them while he was on the move. The Kenyan runner was predicted to take on 60 to grams of carbohydrates per hour. The majority of the carbs Kipchoge consumed during the run was through drinks. He uses a powdered drink, called Maurten , that contains 80g of carbs per ml serving. During the run Kipchoge's team handed him drinks from bikes riding alongside him — they could be seen handing small bottles to the runner at regular intervals. It was a key reason why the attempt didn't count as a world record.

Mears says that during the Nike sub-two hour marathon Kipchoge experimented with small drinks around 50ml every few kilometres to keep a constant supply of fuel going into his body. Smaller servings take longer to get to the muscles, Mears says, but when compared to large drinks they are less likely to cause gastrointestinal issues. Until , the fastest marathon run was languishing in the high s. Since then, Kipchoge has brought down the official world record to set during the Berlin marathon in This was the biggest jump forward in a the male marathon record in 60 years.

In running Kipchoge took two minutes off his world record. Unlike in Monza, Kipchoge had a crowd supporting him along the entire course.

Nike's effort was closed to the public, with only a few hundred people in attendance. This time around thousands of spectators lined the Vienna course.

Attempting to improve top level athletic performance is all about marginal gains. If it's possible to make a small tweak that increases efficiency or a result by half a per cent then it's worth putting the time in to get it right.

That's where aerodynamics come into running a sub-two hour marathon. Elite cyclists have long known that shielding an athlete from the wind can make huge differences to wind resistance they face. Research has shown that riders in the middle of a peloton — a group of cyclists riding close together to reduce aerodynamic drag — can decrease the impact of wind resistance by 50 to 70 per cent.

The influence of wind resistance is reduced in running — due to lower speeds — but it can still make a difference. During Kipchoge's record he had the support of 35 pacemakers with another six in reserve. These were some of the world's top athletes, who can consistently run the A group of seven pacemakers were in front of Kipchoge in a V formation.

Kipchoge was placed at the bottom of the formation with two pacemakers running behind him. During the run the pacemakers worked in teams to rotate in and out of the race during each of the 9. They changed positions at the finish line on each lap.

Read: Can food and drink improve your athletic performance? He had unfettered access to his favorite carbohydrate-rich drink, courtesy of a cyclist who rode alongside the group. The whole thing was as close as you can get to a mobile marathon spa treatment—if going to a spa were paired with the worst discomfort of your life.

But with great optimization comes great controversy. Looked at one way, the INEOS Challenge is a straightforward testament to how money can buy anything, including a branded sub-two-hour marathon. This is a second-chance marketing exhibition for a plastics manufacturer and springy shoes.

Read: How unhealthy are marathons? Corporate sponsorship is, of course, nothing new in sports, but when it arrives at the marathon with a monomaniacal focus on time, it rubs against the nature of the race itself. But the marathon as it is popularly run is not really designed for records in the first place, precisely because of its shifting variables.

It would be hard for a race organizer to design an ideal Imagine running a major marathon on an indoor track. By necessity, then, the marathon has resisted optimization. Different cities have different courses that are known for their unique challenges. Presciently, the journalist Ed Caesar wrote in Two Hours , a book about the future of marathoning, that the only way to pull someone under the two-hour mark would be to manufacture a marathon entirely for the purpose of speed.

This year is no different with the women's race taking place at BST on August 6, while the men's begins just over 24 hours later at BST on August 7. With high temperatures and an uncomfortable humidity causing concern for athletes, the women's race has been brought forward an hour to start at 6am local time. Great Britain set to be stripped of Olympic 4xm relay silver after Ujah's 'B' sample positive. The tricky running conditions mean both races could be slower than usual and it will need something extra special for a new world record to be broken.

The current official world record stands at with Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge clocking the time at the Berlin Marathon in Kipchoge, who is hoping to become only the third man to successfully defend their Olympic marathon title, has run a marathon in less than two hours though. In October , Kipchoge became the first athlete to run a marathon under two hours in a time of in Austria.