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luminalflux
May 27, 2005



Captain Hygiene posted:

I knew somebody who lived up in the mountains, they handily won a city marathon one place they were visiting at just a few hundred feet above sea level.

High altitude training and high altitude “houses” with lower air pressure are definitely A Thing in VO2max sports, where more blood cells = better than. It’s especially big in cross country skiing in the nordics

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luminalflux
May 27, 2005



And Alex Honnold, the guy climbing in that vid, was like “yeah Marc-Andre LeClerc is too out there even for me” in The Alpinist

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



Anne Whateley posted:


Anyone who’s interested, I’m begging you to at least get this book from your library

I did just this and holy poo poo this book goes some places and I’m only on page 67

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



How many bingo squares does this cover?

LA times just wrote a profile on a Bay Area biotech executive, for who ironman and ultramarathons weren’t making him insufferable enough, is training for a North Col ascent from his second home in Lake Tahoe by sleeping in a hypoxic tent.

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