And it’s not like the Nike Breaking2 team failed to pay attention to his fueling-he just didn’t get good enough at it, according to Trouw. Kipchoge had some of the best minds in sports science poring over every possible performance factor two years ago, but he finished 26 seconds short of his sub-two-hour target. “He practiced more in training and it has already worked in big city marathons.” No Stones Unturned “He gets his drink every 5km so that when he comes to racing his body is already used to getting it in,” Trouw says.
Since Breaking2, Kipchoge’s team has taken fluid intake more seriously, simulating their race strategy in his long runs of 21 to 25 miles (35 to 40km). “It was simply too hard for him at that high pace.” “Eliud’s fueling will be a little bit different from Monza in 2017, because we realized there the drinking wasn’t good enough-he didn’t get in enough,” says his long-term manager Valentijn Trouw. For all his laudable qualities and hard work, it seems even the great Kenyan-who will make his second all-out bid to break two hours next month in Vienna-can err in his preparations. Just ask Eliud Kipchoge, the fastest man over 26.2 miles on the planet. While these policies are a step in the right direction, it still leaves one questioning whether they’ll be enough to deter abusive behaviour and how they will be enforced.Deciding what to focus on most when you are training towards a hoped-for landmark marathon performance can be a tricky business.
To encourage an open dialogue about the policies, Athletics Canada will host quarterly town hall meetings between athletes and the organization. They’re also placing renewed emphasis on the Rule of Two, meaning no athlete should ever be alone with a coach. Previously, the organization would only acknowledge complaints from the victim. Specifically, the new whistleblower policy allows anyone who witnesses wrongdoing to report it to Athletics Canada.
In the wake of distributing lifetime bans to Canadian coaches Dave Scott Thomas from the University of Guelph, and Andy McInnis and Ken Porter from the Ottawa Lions Track Club for accusations of athlete abuse, Athletics Canada has announced that it will be introducing a set of new policies to protect athletes from inappropriate behaviour and encourage whistleblowers to come forward.
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