Racing the clock running across 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...

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Main Author: Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The biological clock
  • Life span and aging
  • Racing the clock
  • The running start
  • Nature bonding and running
  • College horizons
  • On the science track
  • California running
  • Running after dreams
  • Cheating the biological clock
  • On the road to Sparta
  • Pacing
  • Racing caterpillars and exercising pupae
  • The hunt
  • On a nature trail
  • Running the clock
  • The church of nature.