Print: Quantifying the Boundaries of Athletic Achievement
Sixty years ago, the athletic cognoscenti held that running a four-minute mile was physically impossible. Today, the record stands at 3:43.13—and John Brenkus says we can do it even faster. Brenkus, who hosts Sport Science on ESPN, has written a new book, The Perfection Point, that draws on recent anatomical research to predict the ultimate […]
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