The Great Ganesha

Every year, there is a series of four races that take place across the globe. The only difference between this series and other series is that these are 100-mile runs across four of the world’s deserts. The last one, is called the the Last Desert competition and it’s in Antarctica. Part spiritual quest, part kamikaze [...]

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If you’re a fitness freak, then you should already know that muscle soreness is not caused by lactic acid, and neither is lactic acid buildup a bad thing. In fact, lactic acid is actually a fuel and muscles produce it directly from glucose, burning it to produce energy. The understanding now is that muscle cells [...]

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Heinz Stücke, a quasi-celebrity amongst biking fanatics, has travelled 335,000 miles across different parts of the world aince 1962. He’s travelled across the Syrian desert to set a personal record of around 200 miles in 12 hours. He’s been to high altitudes in India and Tibet, across Afghanistan and in the mountainous African kingdom of [...]

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For you distance-running, techno-lovers, I found this podcast from a runner-friendly DJ. DJ Steveboy creates 1-2 hour long podcasts, also listing the beats-per-minute of the track. Pretty cool. Incidentally, there is pretty solid evidence that the right kind of music can enhance athletic performance. This meta-analytic study (that means an analysis of other people’s analysis) [...]

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A new study shows that running alone might cause neural degeneration in rats. But when the same rats ran in a group, there was neural generation. So running alone is bad for you. Ok, I say. Then run with a rat. Caveat: For you long distance runners out there (myself included), we don’t have to [...]

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