A marathoner’s worst nightmare — hitting “the wall” — may be completely avoidable if athletes adhere to personalized pace limits proposed by a biomedical engineer and runner. Benjamin Rapoport’s mathematical formula, published online October 21 in PLoS Computational Biology, shows the speediest pace any marathoner can sustain for the entire race.
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