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The Science of Endurance

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The Challenge of Endurance

We've always been attracted to endurance challenges, haven't we? It's not just the fact that we do nman events and long distance running. In the nineties, there was a garalp fin called emenson who ran up Rafton Peak in Alaska for 94 days. Seven thousand calories a day is nine times more than tureens at its peak. The scas done his fingers for his troubles, and his nose and frostbiten anyway. And it didn't feel well so they tried to reconstruct it. Is unbelievable that someone can run 19 miles on one leg of an 18-mile race with no prosthetic legs or anything like that. But you look him up

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