EAN: 9780062973276

RACING THE CLOCK - BERND HEINRICH GEBUNDEN

An award-winning  much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself  using his long-distance
running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetimePart memoir  part scientific
investigation  Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has
been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and
ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine  Heinrich looks deeply at
running  aging  and the body  exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism  diet 
exercise  and age.Why do some bodies age differently than others? How much control do we have
over that process and what effect  if any  does being active have? Bringing to bear research
from his entire career and in the spirit of his classic Why We Run  Heinrich probes the
questions of how we use energy and continue to adapt to our mutable surroundings and
circumstances. Beyond that  he examines how our bodies change while we age but also how we can
work with  if not overcome  many of these changes-and what all this tells us about evolution
and the mechanisms of life  health  and happiness.Racing the Clock offers fascinating and
surprising conclusions  all while bringing the reader along on Heinrich's compelling journey to
what he says will be his final race-a fifty-kilometer race at age eighty.

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