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A Fast Mile Is More Impressive Than a Slow Marathon | Outside Online

There's something a little gimmicky about celebrating distance purely for distance's sake Last year, speaking to Outside, ultrarunner Rickey Gates made the following observation while reflecting on Mount Marathon, the brief but notoriously brutal mountain race in Seward, Alaska: “There’s a grea A Fast Mile Is More Impressive Than a Slow Marathon | Outside Online

Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News

The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists analysing a 3,000 mile run, the Tour de France and other elite events. They showed the cap was 2.5 times the body's resting metabolic rate, or 4,000 calories a day for an average person. Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News