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...Radcliffe heavyweight crew turned in an impressive day of racing last Sunday at the NCAA Championship regatta in Sacramento, Calif., as the first varsity boat blazed to a third-place finish. It was the second-highest finish ever for the Black and White, while the team took sixth place in the overall standings. The University of California won both the first varsity race as well as the overall championship...
...While rounding up volunteers for Real Men Cook, Moyo has often found himself mired in bragging sessions as though cooking were a competitive sport. "A lot of these guys will say flat out that they cook better than their wives," he reports. Moyo likes to tell them, "After you finish your years trying to slam-dunk on the basketball court, you can do the same thing with meatballs...
This is the toughest part of the race for Rusch. Men tend to start out strong and finish weak; female racers, by contrast, gain momentum. "The first day is survival for me because everyone is so amped and they go out fast," says Rusch of the five-man, one-woman team she leads. "I'm just hanging on so I don't fall back." After just two hours, she has used up most of her glycogen--a form of energy derived from sugar and stored in muscles and certain organs--and her body starts running on fat and whatever calories...
...human endurance quite as far as extreme racers. Burning calories and shedding electrolytes faster than their bodies can replace them, athletes like Rusch will lose up to 10 lbs. of water, fat and muscle in the course of a five-day race. By the time Rusch crosses the finish line, her organs are faltering, her muscles are deteriorating, and she's hallucinating wildly. "I don't understand why I do it," says Rusch, who has racked up a dozen top-five finishes over the past eight years. "But I keep coming back for more...
...fitness is chiefly a matter of numbers haunts me still and may be the force that pushes the cardio-bots to such extremes of self-absorbed exhaustion. Merely getting into shape is not their goal; they want to break personal records, racking up victories in some private race whose finish line is always receding. The authority figure whipping them along is not a teacher or the Commander in Chief but an overdeveloped sense of shame or pride that seems to fluctuate in direct response to the readouts on their elliptical machines...