EP 635: Why Are Runners Suddenly so Fast?
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This year it seems like course records throughout trail running have been dropping like flies. \\xa0UltraRunning Magazine lists hundreds of new records for both men and women on their site. \\xa0Some of these records are decades old. \\xa0Are we getting faster? \\xa0It sure seems like that. \\xa0Alex Hutchinson has also been wondering this and decided to do his science thing and find out the truth. \\xa0In his recent OutsideOnline article "Why Are Runners Suddenly So Fast? Records are falling and times are dropping. \\xa0Is it the shoes, or something else?" he filters through the statistics to answer the question.
Read Alex\'s other articles at OutsideOnline here
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