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The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Is the Hour a Threshold?

Physiologically, we delineate these zones by lactate thresholds. The world's best marithon runners run marithons just below zone three. This is because they have the metabolic capacity to re cycle metabolites so fast that they can hit such high percentages of max before they start to fatigue. Whereas you know, mortals like us, weare at 60 % for a for a mouth, and they can get closer to 80%.

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