Running

Athletes who have been penalized for violations of anti-doping rules can be seen as having a responsibility to maintain clean sport. However, I think there should be better ways to detect cheating without having to report whereabouts every day and that there should be a way to differentiate between negligence and intent when it comes to missed whereabouts reports. In addition, I think that the sport should take into account the difficulties of updating whereabouts from countries with limited access to resources such as electricity and internet.
 
Transcript: "A super interesting question, you know, so a lot of athletes, especially long distant, athletes have been penalized, you know, for anti-doping rules be it, you know, they were called doping or they had, you know, way about failures. And so, a lot of them have been banned. Personally, I think that, you know, we each have a responsibility to a clean Sport and I wish that You know, we could say that the people that had a way about failures was they were just being negligent and that they wanted the one actually dropping and trying to evade being caught but there's no way of knowing that. And so in that respect, I think they, you know, penalizing them is the only way to get them to follow the rules. But at the same time I don't know of any other sport where you have to report your way about every single day. You have to tell them I'm where you are. And so, I wish that they were better ways of, you know, cutting cheats, instead of having to report where you are all the time. And also, I think that I wish there was, you know, a way to detect, whether or not someone who fell away about, you know, who fell three times in a year updating their way about. I wish there was a way of telling whether or not they just forgot, or they were actually trying to evade being caught. And so because, I mean they've been times where, like, I forgot to update where I was going and it was 23 hours. Before I remembered and then I would always update. But when I think about, you know, like at least in, you know, third world countries like where I grew up in Kenya, you know, we don't have internet access, we don't have electricity and so it's like it's not that you forgot what if your phone dies and you don't have internet now, how are you going to update your way about and also live over there is very unpredictable, you know, like you could be planning to be home and then a friend comes and you know, you have to go. Go, you know, visit the other friend and you forget to update your way about. So I really wish that there was a way to figure out, you know, how to catch it without having to worry too much about, you know, they weigh about"

Race walking is an Olympic event that involves one foot on the ground at all times and a straight leg from the moment the heel hits the ground until the body passes over it. Speed walking is fast walking with no set definition. Power-walking is similar to race walking but the leg does not have to be fully straightened.
 
Transcript: "Well Trace walking is an Olympic event, it's been. So since 1908 are really 1904 when it was a part of the all-rounder, which eventually became the decathlon. I think in 1924 standardized, there are two distinct rules. You have to have one foot on the ground at all times is judged by the unaided human eye. And the leg has to be straightened from the moment, the heel hits the ground until the body passes over it. Speed walking, I don't even really know what that is. It's just fast walking. There's really no definition. You just go walk. Fast and they call it speed. Walking, almost derogatorily. Usually it's, you know, when they see race Walkers, some people will call that speed walking, which, of course it's not. Power-walking, I used to think the same thing but that's become a sport in its own right. It's similar to race walking, but the leg does not have to be fully straightened, it's a little problematic because then where is that dividing line racewalking you? The leg has to be fully straighten, power-walking kind of straight, but you know, how much is to? How much is too much of a bent knee?"

It's difficult to say why the mile record has stood so long, but it could be due to drug testing not being as good as it is now and milers not wearing Super Shoes.
 
Transcript: "It's pretty easy to say that the mile record has stood so long because nobody runs the mile. It's kind of a, you know, American invention, mostly running the US. The problem with that theory is that the 1,500-meter record is still just as long and is held by the same guy, so it can Mel gurus ran, 326 flat for 1503 43. For the mile, there have been others that have come close, Bernardo got the closest three 26.3, something 3.36. I think for the And you know, very close in the mile as well in that era drug. Testing wasn't as good as it is today. And some of those guys have had drug suspensions. I don't want to throw you, no accusations out there, but it is possible that doping could have something to do with it. But to the the Super Shoe issue, milers don't really wear Super Shoes. They you know, they benefit more from, you know, a very flat Spike. They don't really use those cushy, you know, shoes that are great for the marathon."

Athletes should practice recovering quickly from a hard 10k in training for the new ECODEN relay for racewalkers. This would involve splitting up tempo workouts, taking a 45 minute break, and using ice baths, Norma Tech boots, stretching, and massage to recover before doing another 5 miles.
 
Transcript: "I believe what we're talking about is the new ECODEN relay for racewalkers. It's unclear how this is going to operate, whether there are going to be four legs when four athletes or four legs and two athletes. The original World Athletics press release said it was going to be two athletes doing four legs, so there would be about a 45 minute rest in between. So athletes are going to have to practice recovering from a hard 10k plus or minus or plus, and then recovering to be able to do another one 45 minutes later. So you would want to practice that in training. I mean, I don't know how you adjust it, but you would want to practice maybe splitting up some of your tempo workouts instead of doing a hard 10 miler, do a hard 5 miler, take a 45 minute break, and do ice baths and Norma Tech boots and stretch and maybe get a massage and then warm up again and go and do another 5 miles. I think that's how you would prepare for it."

Caffeine has been shown to help release free fatty acids from fat stores and intramuscular stores, which can aid in glycogen sparing. It's not exactly sure how it works, but studies have suggested its effectiveness.
 
Transcript: "There are conflicting studies, so I'm not sure that I can fully explain it. Studies from the 70s showed that caffeine causes adrenaline to be released, which causes free fatty acids to be released from fat stores and intramuscular stores as well. Studies in the 80s showed that might not be true. More recent studies show it may. It's inconclusive, but what's important is that it happens. They're not exactly sure how it happens, you know, confirmed, but you know, based on duration of exercise studies, exercising until exhaustion studies, it's aided by caffeine use. So it seems that that's what's happening, that glycogen is being spared because free fatty acids are being released, you know, released from their stores. So I can't fully explain it, but it seems to work. So I use caffeinated gum, RunGum."

Race walking courses are more limited than cross country or marathon courses due to the rules on course design. However, even though race walk courses have limited variation, there is still a lot of variety between area championships and world championships.
 
Transcript: "Well in race walking there are a lot of rules on course design, how big the course can be, where aid stations are, how big the turns are. So there's not a lot of variety in race walk courses, a little but not a ton. In cross country, even the marathon on a road course, there can be a lot of variations, a lot of variety. In the marathon they're tending towards loop courses now, but in a race walking event it would be a one or at best a 2K loop. Marathons might be a 10K loop, kind of all around the city. So it limits choices a little bit to have a loop course in the marathon, but because loops are so big it's kind of an infinite number of possibilities. In terms of area championships and world championships, there's so much variety in these courses for cross country and marathon that they're all different. Race walking between area championships and world championships are very similar."