One new study reveals that the reason behind this may be surprising. Turns out, the success of these athletes comes from the fact that they were really skinny as kids. For decades, we have believed that Kenyans are just naturally gifted for running and that their lifestyle only helps. The study showed that the low BMI was the only quality of the Kenyans that really stands out, not how much they walk every day during school years or what they do in their free time.

Nobody really knows the definitive answer to the question of why Kenyans seem to always beat all the other nations. In fact, runners from other countries that come behind them on big races are only a few minutes behind and all of them are incredibly successful marathon runners. What makes the most sense is that a combination of biology, training, culture, and determination brings the Kenyans to the very top.

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The reason for this Kipchoge’s success not becoming the official world record is that the race was actually engineered with him breaking the two-hour barrier in mind. The race wasn’t an open marathon, but instead an event in which he had all the help he needed to clock in the required time. He had a number of professional pacesetters behind him at all times, who are all world-class runners, among other things that helped him achieve this. All this, of course, doesn’t make his success any less significant.

Kipchoge does hold the world record for the time needed to run a marathon and it’s 2:01:39, the time he needed to run the 2018 Berlin Marathon. As he showed that the limits of what’s possible for humans are changing all the time, we won’t be surprised if the official record actually gets under two hours in the next few years.

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One new study reveals that the reason behind this may be surprising. Turns out, the success of these athletes comes from the fact that they were really skinny as kids. For decades, we have believed that Kenyans are just naturally gifted for running and that their lifestyle only helps. The study showed that the low BMI was the only quality of the Kenyans that really stands out, not how much they walk every day during school years or what they do in their free time.

Nobody really knows the definitive answer to the question of why Kenyans seem to always beat all the other nations. In fact, runners from other countries that come behind them on big races are only a few minutes behind and all of them are incredibly successful marathon runners. What makes the most sense is that a combination of biology, training, culture, and determination brings the Kenyans to the very top.

The post How are Kenyan Distance Runners So Fast? appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.

The reason for this Kipchoge’s success not becoming the official world record is that the race was actually engineered with him breaking the two-hour barrier in mind. The race wasn’t an open marathon, but instead an event in which he had all the help he needed to clock in the required time. He had a number of professional pacesetters behind him at all times, who are all world-class runners, among other things that helped him achieve this. All this, of course, doesn’t make his success any less significant.

Kipchoge does hold the world record for the time needed to run a marathon and it’s 2:01:39, the time he needed to run the 2018 Berlin Marathon. As he showed that the limits of what’s possible for humans are changing all the time, we won’t be surprised if the official record actually gets under two hours in the next few years.

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