While the interplay between nature and nurture determines the unique psychophysiological responses to training and competition, technological exploits leading to advanced sports products coupled with favourable natural and/or manipulated internal (body) and external environmental conditions will ensure continued improvement in performance. This book chapter interrogates the factors associated with efforts towards improvement of performance in endurance sports events, with a specific focus on marathon races, and the future implications for training, competition, and the nature of sports. However, some approaches used to improve sports performance may pose ethical concerns and may challenge sports as a concept of celebrating natural human abilities. With stiff competition from athletes from different parts of the world, constant upgrading of sports science based approaches to training and competition are employed to achieve more success. Kipchoge has said he wants to win all six majors, which would mean him running New York City and Boston.Performance in different athletic activities has continued to improve over time, with some athletes from diverse parts of the world registering new world records from time to time. He holds the course records at Berlin, London, and Tokyo, and has also won the Chicago Marathon, for titles at four of the six World Marathon Majors. He won the 20 Olympic titles in dominating fashion. Kipchoge started today’s race as the indisputable greatest male marathoner in history. “I hope the future is still great,” he said on the race broadcast.

When asked if he could improve on the record again, Kipchoge said there’s “still more” in his legs. He maintained that superhuman effort through the homestretch to crush his own world record by 30 seconds. When it appeared that he was really struggling at 40K-a kilometer he covered in 3:12-Kipchoge showed a last-minute burst of energy by running 2:53 at 41K. After sticking right behind Kipchoge for the first half, Belihu started to fall behind around the 26K split, leaving Kipchoge to complete the remaining miles solo.īy 30K, Kipchoge was still on pace to shatter the world record, but a sub 2-hour marathon was looking unlikely.Īfter running a blazing first half, the last few sections were more of a grind for Kipchoge, who continued to slow down but maintained his edge over the previous mark. The pace slowed slightly over the next five kilometers and at 25K, the pacemakers dropped off the course.

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