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Sweat Science

Alex Hutchinson

The latest research on endurance, fitness, and health, clearly explained with a skeptical eye.

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    Author of The Explorer's Gene and Endure, Outside columnist, Globe & Mail, ex-physicist, not-quite-sub-4 miler.

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