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How Fat Makes You Fast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Some of the most hardcore athletes in the world are elite race walkers. Moving faster than most people can run, their sport pushes the limits of endurance, pain tolerance, and fueling. Canadian race walker Evan Dunfee was looking for any edge he could get when he signed up for an experimental nutrition study in Australia. He immediately became one of the world’s best. But not for the reasons everyone thought. The Outside Podcast is made possible by Outside+ subscribers. Learn more about all the benefits of a subscription and subscribe now at outsideonline.com/podplus

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0:00.0

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1:07.0

one of the first events at this year's Summer Olympics is race walking.

1:19.0

On August 1st, the fastest walkers in the world, we'll tow the line to see who can move the quickest

1:26.3

while keeping one foot in contact with the ground, and, according to the rules,

1:31.4

straightening their leading leg and keeping it straight until the leg passes under the body.

1:38.1

And I know you've heard the jokes and seen the parodies, but race walking is hardcore.

1:44.0

Elites walk a six and a half or seven minute mile for 20 kilometers.

1:49.0

It's a sport whose athletes live at the limits of endurance and pain tolerance.

1:55.0

So with the Summer Olympics in Paris coming up, we thought we'd replay this episode from 2019

2:00.0

about an Olympic race walker, who signed up to participate in a nutrition study that changed his life.

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