Alex Hutchinson is a former physicist, national-class runner, and a National Magazine Award-winning science journalist. He is the author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Alex spent eight years working on the book, traveled to labs all over the world and spoke to hundreds of athletes and scientists about how the mind and body influence each other and the role that each plays in the “mystery of endurance.”
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