{"id":632148,"date":"2026-04-27T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:40:10","slug":"lighter-than-a-bar-of-soap-the-shoes-sawe-wore-to-shatter-marathon-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632148\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighter than a bar of soap: The shoes Sawe wore to shatter marathon record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rapid developments in sport science in the last 20 years have run alongside the technological improvements in racing shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simply put, we know more than ever how to &#8216;beat the wall&#8217; and to keep glycogen levels topped up throughout 26.2miles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Sawe&#8217;s case, a research team from sports nutrition brand Maurten spent 32 days with the Kenyan across six trips in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their team, which specialise in hydrogels, worked alongside Sawe to train him to absorb the 90-120 grams of carbohydrates included in the gels within an hour period without feeling distress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By keeping glycogen levels topped up, the body can rely on carbohydrates as its preferred form of energy, rather than fat reserves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost inevitably, when landmark times are set, there are those who raise suspicions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruth Chepngetich, winner of the 2024 Chicago Marathon in a world-record 2:09:56, was hit with a three-year ban for doping in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In light of his countrywoman&#8217;s suspension, Sawe and Adidas asked the Athletics Integrity Unit to ramp up his anti-doping testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2025, Adidas paid $50,000 (\u00a336,800) to increase the drug testing of Sawe in the build-up to the Berlin marathon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapid developments in sport science in the last 20 years have run alongside the technological improvements in racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-632148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}