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Podcast: Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
Episode: Limits are An Illusion: Alex Hutchinson
Description: When you’re running hard, pushing yourself to extremes, which do you think is the more limiting factor, your body or your brain? Alex Hutchinson has done extensive research on exactly that question. The Toronto-based author and journalist focuses on the science of endurance and fitness. You may know him from his book ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance or from Outside magazine where he’s a contributing editor and writes the Sweat Science column. Alex believes that our limits are elastic, stretchable, and as of yet, und...