10/05/2021
This article highlights the 8 most amazing sights at Nike's new Lebron James Innovation Center. This is the one of them! The LED Rabbit!!!
RACE AGAINST ELIUD KIPCHOGE
In 2019, Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge did something never before done in human history: He ran a marathon in under two hours. As a Nike-sponsored athlete, he was wearing a specially designed Nike Vaporfly shoe for the task.
Inside the lab, you’ll see a ring of two different LED “rabbit” lights that constantly circle their way around the circumference of the 200-meter track. One LED is relatively slow. It’s pacing an 11-minute mile, the speed of an average runner. The other LED races by at a 4:35-mile pace. That’s the same pace Kipchoge ran for his entire 26-mile marathon.
After tempting me for the better part of the day, I donned a pair of Vaporflys and broke out into a sprint to chase down Kipchoge’s time. I kept up with his pace for all of a single 200-meter lap.
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