Eliud Kipchoge

Yes, he is.

We shouldn't be giving attention to that, should we, Crokes? We shouldn't be building Kipchoge up.

Not when we've got local athletes to promote and to market and to focus on.

Well, no.

Yeah.

So that was the screenshot I sent through to you.

And I said, Kipchoge can stay home.

There's no way the GOAT can compete with the Jimmy Whelan hype.

He's less worried about his numbers and more about just really conditioning the lower body.

And we used to see that a lot with Kipchoge.

I remember when...

Those videos came out and Kipchoge's doing step classes for over an hour.

John Correa does the same.

All these kings, they do the same.

Vets record he can get after, can't he? He

probably does.

Today on the show, we are talking about what elite athletes do differently, and more importantly, why those differences matter at a biological and neurological level.

When we watch elite performers, whether it's someone like Michael Phelps dominating in the pool or Eliud Kipchoge redefining human endurance, it's really tempting to think that the difference comes down to genetics alone.

And while genetics absolutely play a role, That explanation is way too shallow.

What actually separates elite athletes from everyone else is how their nervous system, physiology, and psychology adapt over time to very specific kinds of stress, feedback, and recovery.

He did in your post-race interview, Finn, uh, around, like, Ludo unlocked this, like, idea for Ben that, like, he shouldn't run scared on the downhills, and he gave credit to Ludo there.

And I don't think he was trying to necessarily say, "I am, I am the fire bearer, the torch bearer," like, "I can now provide heat, uh, to this sport and take us out of the Stone Age," like, "It's all me." I think in this article, he's, he's saying, like, you know, "These three performances are gonna be an inflection point in our sports history." And it's worth noting Dakota fully sees that and understands all of that and then, you know, proceeds to talk about how many people broke the four-minute mile after Roger Bannister did so or how many people, uh, are now, you know, right at that two-hour mark or under that two-hour mark after, uh, Kipchoge tried to do the whole Breaking2 thing.

What I think this is really a reflection on, though, is Dakota wanting more from Ben.

And, like, I think I found it most interesting that Dakota kind of turns to that David Foster Wallace how Tracy Austin broke my heart piece, which is, like, all about Tracy Austin The tennis player and absolute phenom writing a memoir in which she basically uses the word g- the words like good and, um, amazing and, uh, really nice to describe her, like, career in tennis, and there's, there's no depth to it.