The Mathematical Way To Fuel Up For 26.2 Miles

The Mathematical Way To Fuel Up For 26.2 Miles: "After 'hitting the wall' in the New York Marathon, Benjamin Rapoport, an MD/PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, decided to take a rigorous approach to calculating how fast any runner can reasonably hope to run a marathon, and just how much carbohydrate individual runners need to fuel their 26.2-mile races. The result is a new model, published October 21 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, which allows any runner to calculate those targets using an estimate of his or her aerobic capacity...

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