Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime by Heinrich, Bernd

Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime

An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes...
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Author: Bernd Heinrich
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Language: English
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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime by Heinrich, Bernd

Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime

€46,32

Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime

€46,32
Author: Bernd Heinrich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 lifetime

Part 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.



Author: Bernd Heinrich
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780062973276


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 05/31/2021
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 28
Shelf Awareness 07/09/2021
Library Journal 08/01/2021 pg. 73

About the Author
Heinrich, Bernd: -

The author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books, Bernd Heinrich is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

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