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Amby Burfoot

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I am the 1968 Boston Marathon winner, former executive editor of Runner's World Magazine, book author, and editor of the "Run Long, Run Healthy" newsletter.

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Here’s How Many Calories You Really Burn While Running

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By Amby Burfoot
| Marathon Handbook
There’s a long-held heuristic in running that says you burn around 100 calories for every mile run. But that 100-calories-per-mile factoid is incorrect for 99% of runners. It has stuck around for so long only because it’s easy to remember. It’s relatively accurate for a runner who weighs 133 pounds, but off base for everyone else. That’s a problem. Because if you’re running to lose weight, or to maintain your weight, you’ve got to nail this pivotal number from the get-go.
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Remembering a Running Legend

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By Amby Burfoot
| IMPACT Magazine Verified
The global running community lost its number one ambassador with the death of Jeff Galloway, 80, last month in Pensacola, Florida, from complications of a recent stroke. And I lost my favourite training partner. Jeff and I ran together every day for three years as college students at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) in the mid 1960s. Four-time Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon winner Bill Rodgers also ran with Galloway at Wesleyan.
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Do Women Have More Endurance Than Men? The Science Just Got a Lot Clearer

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By Amby Burfoot
| Marathon Handbook
One of the biggest and most fascinating debates in sports science—Do women have more endurance than men?—took two giant leaps forward in recent weeks. The first, on a long, rocky trail in Arizona, was widely covered. The second, and arguably more important, has been overlooked. It happened in a first-of-its-kind controlled experiment in Innsbruck, Austria. Together, the two have tilted the answer needle toward yes.
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