Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

Re:Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon... by teiferer on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:52AM (#47918149)

Then why replace one imprecise term with another? Fiber is a carbohydrate. Humans use close to nothing from its energy. (Though it plays another important role in the digesive system.)

Try eating 100g of grass per hour during a marathon and you will see. That's the metabolic edge horses have over humans.

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Re:Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon... by IAmBroom on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:46PM (#47924832)

Horses don't eat during races (and aren't evolutionarily disposed to marathons, anyway). No edge there; it takes quite a while for their symbiotic gut flora to downconvert fodder to glucose.

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Re:Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon... by teiferer on Monday April 27, 2026 @05:00PM (#47927245)

My gut flora won't do that, so they do have an edge. (Not during a marathon, but that wasn't my point anyway.)

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