JP

before every decision, you can choose to be a dick, or not be a dick. try not to be a dick. Likes = bookmarks.

[JP @jpride]

@DLucaBrasi Same.

[JP @jpride]

One of the worst things my generation has done is professionalize youth sports. It’s such a scam. The comments from the original post are very telling, as well.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

The youth sports industrial complex is crazy. Guiding principles: keep perspective; prioritize fun; and develop people not just athletes. If you are in (or entering) this world, you need to read The Way of Excellence. I promise it will help. https://t.co/QMMhSCRaNL

[JP @jpride]

@louisanicola_ Can I ask, as a compliment and in all sincerity, why you don’t have a bigger following? Seems to me like your content is both important and digestible. Anyway, thank you for all you do.

[Alex Honnold @AlexHonnold]

I’ve recently discovered this podcast “excellence, actually” and I’m really into it. I particularly enjoyed this episode and think it’s worth sharing…. My favorite line was “AI in the classroom is like taking a forklift to the gym”

https://t.co/3VsWCMOWYl

[JP @jpride]

@AidanReed45 @DrRichardHansen @bolderboulder Thank YOU! I learn from you all the time. Appreciate all that you do on here. And congratulations on an Awesome race today!

[JP @jpride]

@DrRichardHansen @bolderboulder @AidanReed45 I’m a huge Aidan Reed fan, always have been. I was so happy to see him enter the stadium as first American. So well-deserved. Congrats to all!!

[Sabrina Little @sabrinablittle]

Absolutely thrilled with the subpar performances at the Enhanced Games. Stay away from peptides, kids. Or you might also become decidedly worse at sports AND lose your integrity in the process.

[JP @jpride]

@travismillerx13 How much does he weigh? Honest question to attempt to correlate to other athletes.

[JP @jpride]

@TheRockyGallery Not me! Love your work as always.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

"As of Friday, American consumers had paid an extra $35bn in petrol and diesel costs since the war began, according to Brown University's Watson School of Public Affairs. That equates to about $268 per household or about the cost of a week's groceries." https://t.co/xzUilXaFCL

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

"One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do." — The Way of Excellence. https://t.co/QMMhSCRaNL

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Gas prices are at crazy levels--FIRE TRUMP!

[JP @jpride]

@Rockies when was the last time a Rockies pitcher tagged someone out?

[JP @jpride]

@TheMushArtist @nuggets Wait he’s got like 27 and one of the only guys with a positive +/-

[Denver Nuggets @nuggets]

Back in the W column

[JP @jpride]

@CardsByTravis I said the same thing!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What in the world did we just see!

The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record...

Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half.

One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here?

Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress.

It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot.

You've got to bet on yourself in a big way.

When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word:

"Yes."

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough.

So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table.

He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests.

There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it:

"I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line."

But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race?

1. Shoe tech

We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy.

For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did.

Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable.

Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost.

Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy.

But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon.

So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall...

2. The fuel

For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much.

Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently.

Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore.

We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades.

Again...less bonking.

3. Depth

A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon.

Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is.

And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly.

More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers.

4. Belief

Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials.

Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible.

A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it.

Our prediction of what is possible changed.

It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time.

What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race.

Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

[JP @jpride]

@Broncobilly5280 @IvanIva46213815 @nuggets We’d be a play-in team without Murray this year. He carried us so much.

[JP @jpride]

@afehrsen @ProfTimNoakes @JohnGoldman @LoreofRunning1 When someone needs 500 words to justify their position, yet their opponents need about 20, I think that is rather telling.