Originally Posted by
hhnngg1
A pretty good recent large-scale study of runners (not ultra or competitive runners) showed that if anything, runners had long-term better cartilage health.
In the ultra crowd, lots of older folks as well; doesn't seem that their cartilage is wearing out prematurely. It's one of the most oommon but inaccurate myths about running injuries, that you have a finite number of miles in your cartilage, and thus destined for a wheelchair at age 65 just because you ran a lot when you were longer.
Makes sense.
I just watched this:
They discussed ancient hunting techniques, or persistence hunting. Turns out they actually hunted in the heat of the day, when animals with coats (like all of them) would literally develop heat stroke after being chased for four hours, at which point a group of hunters could take down the animal armed only with hand axes.
Which has nothing to do with TT bikes, but I did learn something.
Also, this is before the evolution of **** sapiens ******cyclus.