Personal Best: Recipe for Resentment: Claims of Running Prowess

Why does running arouse such passion? You don't hear gleeful chortling about the health hazards to master swimmers or cross-country skiers or cyclists who do 100-mile "century" rides.

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/a-running-bias-against-runners/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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