Is your body a temple?

Let's take a moment to think about the fuel, hydration, supplements, and enhancements that we put into our bodies.

Ruth Chepntg’etich won the Chicago Marathon with a world-record-breaking 2:09:56, breaking the 2:10 mark for the first time

The very nature of world records means they are made to be broken, but there is a study that has found the limit of how fast a human can run a marathon is somewhere around 1:58. That accepts that a sub-2hr marathon is certainly coming, with the prediction that there is a 1 in 4 chance that it’ll happen by March 2027. There’s been a 1 in 10 chance that it could happen since November 2018.

Ruth Chepng'etich at the finish line of the 2024 Chicago Marathon holding a Kenyan flag aloft.

There’s also been an overwhelming (and unsavory?) commentary on how Ruth Chepntg’etich got so fast. Only four MEN have run faster than her in 2024. The age-old comparison. It’s reasonable to admit that by running sub-5min-miles for 26 miles she’s fast for a woman (I’ve driven through Los Angeles slower than that), but how did she do it?

Super shoes? Sure, but the previous two-minute-slower …