
Alex Hutchinson
Outside columnist, author of THE EXPLORER'S GENE and ENDURE, Globe & Mail, ex-physicist, not-quite-sub-4 miler.
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theglobeandmail.com | Alex Hutchinson
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2 weeks ago |
run.outsideonline.com | Alex Hutchinson
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Earlier this week, I found myself dissecting an embargoed briefing video frame by frame, like a JFK obsessive trying to squeeze meaning from the Zapruder film.
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outsideonline.com | Alex Hutchinson
According to Shakespeare, there are lessons and stories everywhere in nature-or, as he puts it, books in the running brooks, tongues in trees, and sermons in stones. I'm down with that idea. But in case the running brooks aren't meeting your educational needs this summer, here are some suggestions for actual books to tuck into your backpack.
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3 weeks ago |
outsideonline.com | Alex Hutchinson
If I told you that NASA has developed a radical new way of monitoring and quantifying your workouts, and that that method outperforms all others, you'd probably assume that it involves bleeding-edge science. There would be AI, and some sort of wearable or perhaps even injectable technology. It would be very expensive. But you'd be wrong, for reasons that tell us something important about the quest to transform training optimization from an art into a science.
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triathlete.com | Alex Hutchinson
As headlines go, “Social Media is Bad” doesn’t raise many eyebrows these days. TikTok and its ilk are said to be harming mental health, stifling creativity, eroding privacy, fueling disinformation, undermining national security, and so on. These are all big issues worthy of careful debate. But there’s a narrower and more tangible risk that Sweat Science readers might be concerned about. What if social media is making us slower?
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RT @stevemagness: Here's a nice summary of the research by @sweatscience: https://t.co/5FYt61YJXB And for what it's worth, this mirrors wh…

Here's hoping for terrible flight delays at O'Hare, leaving people desperate for reading material.

Spotted at O’Hare. Chicago airport. @sweatscience https://t.co/7IPnt6j1jr

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