Nike'S Breaking2 Project: Can Marathon Run For 2 Hours?

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Whether you can run into 2 hours or not, this topic is the same as the 100 meters can run into 10 seconds. It has become one of the hottest topics in sports in the past six months.

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The Breaking2 project was launched in December 2016, that is, the whole horse can run for 2 hours. After six months of preparation, the real challenge will be in the world's most famous F1 track, Monza Royal racing ground, in May 6th.

The 42.195 kilometer marathon, the world record of 2 hours, 02 minutes and 57 seconds, was created by Kenya Denis Kimito in the 2014 Berlin International Marathon race.

That is to say, Nike's Breaking2 project needs to raise the current world record by about 3%-4%. At first glance, this proportion is not high, but considering that the whole Malaysia record has remained unchanged for 3 years, and it has only increased 26 seconds in the last record breaking period.

This time, if you want to run into the 2 hour mark, the challenge is not too difficult.

In order to give athletes the "best" competition environment.

The Nike Breaking2 project team chose Monza. In the formula one grand prix, Monza is the most typical high speed track. The ancient racing ground, located in Monza Royal Park, is known as "speed Palace".

In Nike's view, this is in line with the essential environmental factors of marathon's success: temperature is maintained at around 12 12mmHg, steam pressure is less than 12mmHg, and the weather is usually cloudy (reducing the heat load of runners), and depending on the perfect distance between the track and the coast and the surrounding trees, there is no sharp directional change in the airflow.

The environment is only an external condition. In this project, Nike pays the most.

Technically, the US sports giant has been developing and ultimately selecting equipment that uses Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite boots at the bottom of Nike ZoomX.

The ergonomics technology used in this kind of war boots is not even the biggest selling point. Monza is echoing the aerodynamics technology in running shoes. Aerodynamic technology has always been the biggest attraction in the F1 racing car, which means that hundreds of millions of dollars of R & D investment is invested every year.

Unlike the traditional smooth design of running shoes, Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite's gradual Nike ZoomX mid bottom slow vibration has reached a height of 21 millimeters, and is lighter, softer and more flexible than traditional foam.

The unique midsole design aims to provide athletes with higher energy backhaul and super strong cushioning performance.

This constitutes a new dynamic system with ultra light and high resilience Nike ZoomX midsole and unidirectional carbon plates.

In addition to the height of the 21 mm forehand, the Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite also has a 9 millimeter drop to minimize the damage of Achilles tendon.

This is also reflected in the unique "shovel" geometry of carbon plates, which can be seen from the bottom of the logo.

In addition to providing enough propulsion, the main function of the carbon board also includes enhancing the bending strength, aiming at improving the running efficiency of each step and minimizing the energy loss during the competition.

The three athletes selected by E Ruud Kipchaug, Eliud Kipchoge, Lelisa Desisa, and Zesenne Tadese (Zersenay Tadese) have also been involved in this project to a large extent. Not only are they living habits and exercise tests, but all their equipment is made to the greatest degree of customization, including the 1:1 fitting Flyknit shoes and bread wrapped feet for the athletes, including the body details outlined by 3D technology. The fabric shape of the equipment will be designed according to the results of the 3D, and the mesh size of the fabric will even take into account the location and size of each sweat gland in the Kipchoge.

In addition, Aeroblade stickers attached to their legs and arms can also help reduce resistance.

According to Nike's input, the fine-tuning of the boots of three athletes will be completed.

A large number of R & D investment, the participation of many scientific researchers, and even give people an illusion: in the Breaking2 project, the work of athletes seems to be the simplest.

Luo Geng, Geng Luo, a senior biomechanics researcher at Nike sports research laboratory, said: "in fact, technological innovation is a particularly rewarding part of our whole process. When we design these shoes for Breaking2, we have broken many restrictions, breaking the traditional sense of marathon shoes.

After breaking many restrictions, we share what we learn and share it with consumers.

Despite huge investment, the industry is still sceptical about whether Breaking2 can really succeed.

After all, in ordinary people's common sense, breaking through human limits does not seem to be a pair of high-tech running shoes and some innovative design equipment.

In this regard, Nike's understanding is also very calm, Dr Roland said: "for us, no attempt is the biggest failure, no matter what the final result is, we put a lot of energy to create a variety of products, to understand athletes and athletes training, the process of learning is the biggest success for us.

So there is no real failure.

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