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Built Backwards from the Charles
Eliot Bridge, the Charles River, Boston. Friday 20 October 2023. Greg Benning goes under the Eliot Bridge in a single, well clear. He started…
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My Cardiologist Named the Two Cheapest Things in the Sport
A stress test above the lake, a clean result, and one sentence in the cool-down that turned a heart question into a whole-body one.
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The Judge Calls It the World’s Greatest Workout
Two international rowers with access to every facility in Europe, at five in the morning on Manly Beach, doing the half of strength work…
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The Squad That Barely Ever Raced
A world-record team pursuit lasts about as long as a masters 1 km. In 2024 somebody finally published what that squad’s training actually looked…
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I Had It All Dialled In. That Was the Problem.
Premium members only I have a nutritionist. I have a protocol. I run supplement experiments on myself with a baseline period and a control,…
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