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Video: Kenyan runner Philip K maxes out at 22km/h in VAMEVAL (peak running speed) test as part of a three-test battery in our East African running study (5km treadmill TT and fatigue intervals the other two). Brain & muscle oxygenation, VO2, EMG, biomechanics & anthropometry will hopefully tell a story in the coming months! Been a pretty impressive few weeks. Thanks to @jordansudafrica and the team for great work. Ross
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[Video]: This is how an elite VO2max test ends, at 22km/h in the VAMEVAL test. Running economy 180 ml/kg/km. One thing we have in common is complete exhaustion. Just that some 'fail' at a slightly higher level than others! Continued privilege to test the upper limits of human running performance
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Some video footage of our Kenyan running research from today. 5km time-trials, measuring brain oxygenation. This at 2:55/km, HR 200, SpO2 93%. So far, so good. Next step is maximal testing, economy & fatigue investigations. Privileged to study and learn from these exceptional runners.
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Our London Marathon analysis podcast is now out. We dissect the big stories of the 2020 race, including:
- Kipchoge's defeat, and what it means for his future. Is the end in sight, or is it a once-off aberration?
- Exercise physiology and performance in the cold
- The evolving shoe controversy
- Brigid Kosgei's dominance and pacing lessons from an intriguing women's race

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And much more. You can listen here:
https://play.acast.com/…/whatthelondonmarathontaughtusabout…

https://podcasts.apple.com/…/what-london-mara…/id1461719225…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2346q9RuP16cWZwj0tEWqX

Ross

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The ground-breaking 2020 London Marathon saw the great Eliud Kipchoge lose his first marathon since 2013 as Ethopian Shura Kitata took the men's win and Brigid Kosgei the women's title. But the real story of the marathon was the weather and what really happened to Kipchoge on race day. Prof. Ross Tu...
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What the London Marathon Taught Us About Performance and Temperature / The Fall of Kipchoge / Can Kosgei Be Beaten? - The Real Science of Sport Podcast
The ground-breaking 2020 London Marathon saw the great Eliud Kipchoge lose his first marathon since 2013 as Ethopian Shura Kitata took the men's win and Brigid Kosgei the women's title. But the real story of the marathon was the weather and what really happened to Kipchoge on race day. Prof. Ross Tu...
The ground-breaking 2020 London Marathon saw the great Eliud Kipchoge lose his first marathon since 2013 as Ethopian Shura Kitata took the men's win and Brigid Kosgei the women's title. But the real story of the marathon was the weather and what really happened to Kipchoge on race day. Prof. Ross Tu...

Here is the third and final instalment of our 2020 Tour de France analysis podcasts. In this one, we jump headfirst into the final TT performance by Tadej Pogacar, which won the Tour thanks to (Ross' estimate) a 6.6 W/kg climb at the end of a 57 min effort.

We explore what that performance may mean, its physiological implications for Pogacar's physiology in the context of a tweet by his team Performance Director about lactate, and how the numbers are painted on a canvas of... decades of suspicion, revisited again by a police raid on a Tour team.

Plus we chat cadence & leg length, the young rider emergence, and the misplaced covid-19 prophecies of doom.

Ross

Listen here:

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/tour-france-wrap…/id1461719225…

acast: https://play.acast.com/…/tourdefrancewrap-pogacarsrace-winn…

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/225ggr5TGctROyg2UQqfA4

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Slovenian Tadej Pogacar's sensational penultimate stage performance up the famed Les Planche de Belle Filles, on his way to his overall win, will go down in legend as one of most dramatic moments in Tour de France history. Prof. Ross Tucker and Mike Finch break down the numbers, discuss the implicat...
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TOUR DE FRANCE WRAP: Pogacar's Race-Winning TT Analysis / Cadence vs Power / VAM Explainer - The Real Science of Sport Podcast
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar's sensational penultimate stage performance up the famed Les Planche de Belle Filles, on his way to his overall win, will go down in legend as one of most dramatic moments in Tour de France history. Prof. Ross Tucker and Mike Finch break down the numbers, discuss the implicat...
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar's sensational penultimate stage performance up the famed Les Planche de Belle Filles, on his way to his overall win, will go down in legend as one of most dramatic moments in Tour de France history. Prof. Ross Tucker and Mike Finch break down the numbers, discuss the implicat...
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