[Ebook] Reading Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curi

<b>From the National Magazine Award-winning <i>Runner’s World</i> columnist, frequent <i>New Yorker</i> online contributor, and Cambridge-trained physicist: a fascinating and definitive exploration of the extraordinary science of human endurance and the secrets of human performance, for fans of <i>The Sports Gene</i>, <i>Born to Run</i>, and <i>Grit</i>.</b><br /><br />From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we’re fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly testing both our physical and psychological limits.<br /><br />How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits?<br /><br />For years, physiology determined the answer: heart size, lung capacity, and muscle strength. But over the past decade, a wave of dramatic findings in the cutting-edge science of endurance has completely overturned our understanding of human limitation. <i>Endure</i> widely disseminates these findings for the first time: