Breaking 2

A year or two ago, I sort of went >poof<, and vanished from the (public) sports performance world. It wasn’t an easy disappearing act to pull off! I got a lot of email and phone calls from friends, colleagues and athletes alike, all of whom were wondering if I had finally run away to join the circus, as I have often threatened to do.

Skiba, Jones and Clarke at YaYa

As many of you now know, I was recruited to join a top-secret “moonshot” project to attempt to break the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier. You can read some of the press, and see some video in the links below. Thanks to all my colleagues at Nike for giving me the opportunity, and thanks to Advocate Medical Group and especially Dr. Tarek Karaman, who were willing to lend me out for travel to Oregon, Kenya, Ethiopia, Spain and Italy to help realize the project. Stay tuned for the documentary, which will broadcast on the National Geographic Channel later this year!