The Rise of Southern African Sprinting / London Marathon Pacing Blunders / Seixas to the Tour / Your Carb Questions Answered

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics in sports including sprinting, marathon pacing, and carbohydrate training.

Join Discourse - our Supporters club is awesome, and it's yours for the price of a coffee every month. Or a gel. Become a supporte r and get twice the value after the show, and a chance to influence it too! Show notes In today's Spotlight, a spin around the world of sports news, and some listener questions answered: A look back at the World Relay Championships from Botswana, featuring some of the greatest relay performances ever seen, including from some unheralded names London Marathon statistics, courtesy a pair of analyses that shed light on how we pace marathons, and how few actually get it right The fine line between regulating and strangling innovation in sport, after Coe speaks about super shoes in running Speaking of innovation, do the Enhanced Games count? We look ahead to that event with some thoughts from Sean Ingle's latest article We tell you why we think Paul Seixas going to the Tour de France is the right decision and discuss the risks people had offered against it Listener JRB asks a question about training with carbohydrates, and whether there's any merit in a 'train low, compete high' high approach when it comes to carbs? Still on the subject of carbs, what's…

People in this episode

Hosts: Professor Ross Tucker, Mike Finch

Topics covered

• Southern African sprinting
• London Marathon pacing
• Tour de France
• carbohydrate training
• women's rugby
• psychology in sports

Keywords

• sprinting
• marathon
• carbohydrates
• women's rugby
• psychology
• Enhanced Games
• World Relay Championships

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AFL

Places: Botswana

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