I\'ve never had any wild ambition to run in a road race, and in fact, up until recently I tried to do everything I could to avoid running. Not for me, I thought. I\'ll just take a nice leisurely pace. But in the last month or two in...
I naively assumed this was true for everyone but I just found an intriguing 1996 study that compared brain function of lowland mountain climbers and Nepalese Sherpas after ascent to highaltitude, which found that the Sherpas suffer few...
Altitudetraining. Most of the training we do in Calgary is done at an elevation of 1048 metres or 3438 feet. Being here in Kabul I have actually noticed the difference training at 1790m or 5893 feet. I have been progressively,...
A rainy day trip to a bakery in Leslieville was almost ruined when we found it was closed. Thankfully, we remembered hearing about a tiny gem, calledAltitudeBaking, that has all kinds of excellent sweet-tooth-satisfying goodies.