Lynchburg Reporter

With Kipchoge, Libre Sense is Running With a Fast Crowd 

You don't have to be a world class marathon racer to benefit from Abbott's Libre Sense.

But if you are the world class marathoner who was the first human to record a sub-2-hour time over 26.2 miles, hello Eliud Kipchoge. It's nice to see you again.

Kipchoge (who went 1:59:40 in 2019) used Libre Sense — the world's first glucose sport biosensor1 — among his training regimen for Berlin, where he beat his own world record to mark the fastest official world marathon ever run.

Three months before he won his second consecutive gold the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games — delayed by COVID-19 — the record-breaker won the NN Mission Marathon in Enschede, the Netherlands, with a time of 2:04:30 in a race against a field of elite runners only.

He's the first runner to win four Abbott World Marathon Majors, a series of six of the largest and most renowned marathons in the world: Tokyo Marathon, Boston Marathon, TCS London Marathon, BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, Bank of America Chicago Marathon and TCS New York City Marathon. He just added his fourth Berlin win and first Tokyo win this year alone.

Now, he’s looking to win all six if he can check Boston and New York City off of his running list of victories.

"Libre Sense has transformed my training program. I am learning how my glucose levels relate to my running performance and have already started to see how quickly small adjustments can make a big difference," Kipchoge said. "I am honored to work on this project, which hopefully will help athletes around the world to better understand the relationship between nutrition and performance to help them improve."

How Libre Sense WorksLibre Sense is a small round biosensor (approximately the size of two quarters) worn on the back of the upper arm. For up to 14 days, the biosensor provides real-time glucose values through a mobile app1 and wrist readers2 developed by Supersapiens, a sports technology company focused on improving athletic performance.

Your body stores glucose as fuel ready to be burned as you need. Once you're exercising, your glucose will go up for a time. But later — and especially so in endurance exercise like marathoning and as glycogen stores are depleted — glucose will begin to lower.

How and when that's happening in your body is key to helping achieve your best performance.

And Libre Sense is key to knowing the how and the when.

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