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An 81-year-old just shattered a 50K world record—and the lab data shows aging isn't limited by the heart as we thought. The real secret might be in your muscles.
From Alex Cyr, our gear editor and 1:04 half marathoner: I'm letting you in on a little secret: I'm going all in on running in 2026. I'm increasing my mileage, prioritizing my sleep, spending more time in the gym - the thing is I don't want to squander these next 12 months because I think that some of my lifetime running goals are just around the corner.
A big reason that I'm in this position now is that I really improved my fueling game in the last 12 months. I started to take supplements from Momentous: first their creatine, then their post-workout high-protein recovery mix, and then their pre-workout high-carb fuel. I loved the stuff so much that we eventually partnered with them: they sponsor this podcast, and I'm popping their creatine chews like candy.
I wasn't always a supplements guy: there's a lot of contaminated crap out there that makes it nearly impossible to know what you're actually putting in your body. What I like about Momentous is that every product is independently certified by NSF for Sport® or Informed Sport, meaning it's tested for contaminants, heavy metals, banned substances, and verified for label accuracy. That's great news: no dirty burritos out here.
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This week's Marathon Handbook Podcast mailbag is a full-spectrum runner brain dump: a listener misses sub-3 by three seconds (and asks what to do next), a 22-year-old wonders if sub-3 at Boston is realistic, we unpack the deceptively big question "what is marathon pace?," debate super shoes for mid-pack marathoners, and get real about injury grief and staying sane when running gets taken away.
If you pace your marathon using "fresh" VO₂max and threshold numbers, this study suggests you're already behind—because by 90–120 minutes your engine is measurably weaker, and the same pace starts costing way more than you think.
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