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A.C. Shilton

  • Executive Assessment Specialist, Stealth Mode Startup Company
Tennessee
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Former Journalist Now In Tech • Farmer • Mediocre Cyclist + Ironman • Affirmation Chickens Author • Repped by @lynnjohnstonlit

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A.C. Shilton is an award-winning freelance journalist covering fitness, food, the outdoors, and environmental and social justice issues. She's Outside Online's Eat and Drink columnist and is a regular at Runner's World, Bicycling, Men's Journal and YES! Magazine.

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Concierge Medicine Means Only the Ridiculously Rich Can Find a Doctor

Concierge Medicine Means Only the Ridiculously Rich Can Find a Doctor

A look at how the growth of concierge medicine could make the impending doctor shortage much, much worse.

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The FDA Is Coming for Your Cheese

The FDA Is Coming for Your Cheese

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The FDA Is Coming for Your Cheese

The FDA Is Coming for Your Cheese

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Have We Reached Peak PBR?

Have We Reached Peak PBR?

Last month, a curious thing happened: After a long day of work, my husband showed up on our doorstep with a s…

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Road Rules

Road Rules

"I just don't think I can do this," I said. They were words I'd been turning over in my head for the past wee…

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The 6 Most Dangerous Fitness Myths

The 6 Most Dangerous Fitness Myths

Doctors debunk workout myths that could have serious, even fatal, consequences.

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This Is Your Body on Cycling

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By A.C. Shilton
| Bicycling Magazine
Trevor Raab Your body isn’t a temple, it’s a machine. It’s not just any machine, though. It’s the world’s most complex super-computer; a thing of baffling intricacy, with inner-workings so complex scientists still puzzle over pieces of it. And if you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on with it as you ride, here’s your moment-by-moment guide to the beast within.
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What If We're All Training Too Hard?

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By A.C. Shilton
| Bicycling Magazine
10 min read On the first day of 2022, I did a foolish thing. Buoyed by all the shiny possibilities of a new year, I signed up for the Off-Road Assault on Mount Mitchell (ORAMM), a 60-mile mountain bike race with 10,500 feet of ugly uphill on and around North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway—in the hottest part of summer: late July. It was the last thing I needed in my life. It was the exact thing I needed in my life. I am the poster child for hustle culture run amok.
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Does Running Have an Alcohol Problem?

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By A.C. Shilton
| Runner's World
Pro ultrarunner Coree Woltering doesn’t do anything halfway. “If I’m going to do it, I want to do like 120 percent, no matter what it is,” he says. When he brings that attitude to his running and racing, the results speak for themselves—like setting a new fastest known time on the 1,000-plus-mile Ice Age Trail across Wisconsin in 2020. However, Woltering also brought that attitude to the bar. “It wasn’t just a ‘let’s have two beers and be done’ thing,” says the 32-year-old from Dalton, Georgia.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

As an associate editor at a local fashion magazine. I steamed so many party dresses used the words "fun and flirty" way too many times.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Never. I have no idea how to even work one. Me working on a typewriter would probably be like watching my mom try and navigate Excel.

How is social media changing news?

It's making it easier for really strong, smart reporting to be found, but it also makes it easier for good things to get buried.

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