Bekele out of Berlin, Gore runs 633 miles in a backyard
Phil Gore kept going for 152 hourly laps, 633.75 miles, at Project 168. And Kenenisa Bekele is out of Berlin a week after he was put in.
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Races and results
Phil Gore runs 152 yards, 633.75 miles, at Project 168
Phil Gore completed 152 "yards" (hourly 4.167-mile loops in a backyard ultra) at Project 168, which Zach Bitter puts at 633.75 miles. Bitter says the performance put the backyard ultra world on notice. Gore talked through the run and the recovery on the Human Performance Outliers podcast.
Phil Gore put the Backyard Ultra World on notice with his incredible Project 168 performance.
Bekele withdraws from Berlin a week after being added
Kenenisa Bekele has been forced to withdraw from Sunday's Berlin Marathon, Jonathan Gault reports, one week after the race announced him as a late addition. Bekele is 44 and has not finished a marathon since the 2024 Olympics. No reason for the withdrawal is given.
How they train
Study: 3mg/kg caffeine lifted fat burning from 33g to 40g
Brady Holmer flags a study in which runners oxidized 40 grams of fat during a one-hour run at fatmax intensity (the effort where fat burning peaks) after caffeine, versus 33 grams without. The dose was 3 mg/kg of body weight. Holmer's post links the study.
Participants oxidized 40 grams of fat during a 1-hour run at fatmax intensity after ingesting caffeine vs. 33 grams without caffeine.