Endure: Mind Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance with Alex Hutchinson
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
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🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Alex shares the science and the mysteries of endurance, a subject near and dear to all runners. From short sprints to ultra-marathons, endurance plays a crucial role and today we find out what it is and how to extend it.
Alex covered Nike's Breaking 2 project in 2017 where elite marathoner Eliud Kipchoge attempted a sub-2 hour marathon, albeit in fabricated and controlled conditions. Kipchoge came up just short, but in so doing, showed us how close the human body actually is to breaking this wall.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's run to the top podcast, the message that I hope people come away from the |
| 0:07.8 | book with is not I should go buy this pill or invest in that brain stimulation |
| 0:12.3 | device but that how much I'm able to push |
| 0:14.9 | myself and what the limits of my endurance are fundamentally a function of what's going on |
| 0:18.9 | in my brain and they respond to what I believe is I'm capable of. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.6 | where it's all about learning from the best |
| 0:31.8 | and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon |
| 0:49.0 | Coach and host for the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | What do you know about endurance? |
| 0:55.0 | If you haven't read Alex Hutchinson's |
| 0:58.0 | amazing book called Endure, |
| 1:00.0 | you will certainly learn a lot more. |
| 1:02.0 | Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award winning journalist |
| 1:06.0 | whose work appears in Outside the Globe and Mail, |
| 1:09.0 | the New York Times, the New Yorker, |
| 1:11.0 | and other publications. |
| 1:12.0 | His recent book Endure goes into great depth and |
| 1:16.1 | page-turning reading about the brain, the body, and the mind-boggling limits that |
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