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Conner Mantz or Zouhair Talbi at No. 1⁉️ We’re about 707 days away until the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials so maybe it’s not too early stat the discussion on who are the top contenders. 📊 The Boston Marathon results have only further complicated the question: who are the best American marathoners right now? The answer comes in the form of our first 2028 U.S. Marathon Power Rankings: a comprehensive early look at who will be in the mix for the LA Olympic team. Ranking marathon potential two years out is no easy task. How do you measure a proven star against a promising debutant? Do you reward consistency over upside? Recent form over peak performance? What do you do with the runners who’ve shown flashes of brilliance but can’t stay healthy? How much does age on race day factor in? The list includes Olympians, World Championship team members, and a few track stars who could quickly become a factor over 26.2. 💬 Does your favorite make the cut? Who should be higher or lower? See more here: citiusmag.com/articles/2028-…

This observation made me ask another: Is the belief that one must ingest 90-120g carbohydrate/hour during racing and training a uniquely Western/North American/European idea? If it is so important, what do the elite Kenyan runners do when they run their long training runs in places like Iten and Eldoret. In his book goodreads.com/book/show/1314… Adharanand Finn describes a final 38km training run in Iten for athletes preparing for the international marathon racing season. He noted that the athletes started after an overnight fast without breakfast and were provided with drinks every 5km or so. Only after the run did they drink sugar-loaded tea. I asked Grok what were they likely drinking during the 38km training run. Here is her answer: "Primarily water (often ad libitum or sparingly during runs), with milky sugary tea (chai) as a key recovery/hydration drink afterward; Gatorade or similar commercial sugary sports drinks are rare or nonexistent in traditional training. "Elite Kenyan runners in high-altitude training hubs like Iten and Eldoret (the Rift Valley) follow simple, traditional hydration practices focused on water and tea rather than engineered sports drinks. Scientific studies and observations from training camps confirm this: "During long training runs: They typically drink little or nothing while running, or just small sips of plain water if needed. Previous research notes that elite Kenyan endurance runners 'did not consume liquids before or during training' in many cases, or did so infrequently and modestly. Long runs (often 20-40 km or more) are frequently done fasted or with minimal intake, relying on their high-carb diet for fuel. They train in groups on dirt roads with no aid stations, so carrying bottles isn't the norm—some may have small water bottles available at camps, but it's not Gatorade-style drinks". My note: Typically the athletes are accompanied on these runs by coaches who follow in a car and provide drinks every 5km or so. Also sports drinks are expensive and perhaps hard to come by in rural Kenya although Coca-Cola is likely more widely available. So if these athletes wanted a sugar-laden drink during training, Coca-Cola would suffice. Thus it looks like the "Kenyan secret" is definitely not because they ingest 90-120g carbohydrate per hour during their long distance training runs. And if they are not doing it in training, it's highly improbable that they are doing it in racing - according to the advice that one does not do something in racing that has not been tested in training. (Also because of the need for what Westerners call "gut training" (ie minimise the adverse gastrointestinal consequences of repeated ingestion of high carbohydrate drinks whilst racing). This raised many other additional interesting questions. For example, when eating a high carbohydrate diet (unquestionably true), why do elite Kenyan marathon runners do their long training runs in a fasted state with minimal carbohydrate ingestion? What are the rates of fat oxidation that they reach in marathon races run this way? Etc Etc. So it seems that the advice to "do as the Kenyans do" is not adhered to when it comes to (minimal) carbohydrate ingestion during exercise and training and starting long runs in a fasted state. @PhilipPrins11 @AKoutnik @PaulBLaursen @DrPhilMaffetone @sweatscience @theplews1 @Brady_H @MountainRoche @LoreofRunning1

#Giants star Dexter Lawrence is being traded to the #Bengals in a pre-Draft blockbuster that includes the No. 10 pick heading to the Giants, per me and @MikeGarafolo

.@StevenCheah ranked the NFL’s Last 10 First Overall Picks Where will Fernando Mendoza end up on this list?

Stop Fighting Over Who’s The “Fastest Woman Alive” 🙅‍♀️ "The last time Sha’Carri Richardson ignited this particular debate was in 2024, when online promotion of her Vogue magazine profile called her 'the fastest woman in the world,' enraging a lot of folks on a certain Caribbean island. But that all happened because… Sha’Carri was in Vogue. She didn’t get there based on her spot in the all-time top-ten list, and there are plenty of other World champions who don’t end up on the covers of magazines. Sha’Carri garnered a splashy photoshoot and a 2,500-word feature in a mainstream publication because she’s interesting. That’s much more marketable than a personal best or gold medal ever will be. So let’s focus a little less on stats, and a little more on stories if we want to get people to care about sprinting greatness for more than ten seconds at a time. 📫 Read more via @TheLapCount: thelapcount.substack.com/i/193516761/st…

The AIU has banned Albert Korir (Kenya) for 5 years from 8 January 2026 for Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (CERA). DQ results from 3 October 2025 Details here: bit.ly/Albert-Korir-D…