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Thomas Tan Patient Expert

Newcastle, Washington
I participate in ultra-endurance running to test and accept my personal limits. Part of my quest... Full Bio
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PEG: Harnessing Portable and Eco-Friendly Energy from Your Footsteps

If you’re looking for a great holiday gift for a runner, you might want to consider the Personal Energy Generator, or PEG. Weighing about 9...

The Greatest Recorded Human Endurance Performance of All Time

It occurred long before performance-enhancing drugs tarnished modern endurance sports, and before the first U.S. transcontinental race on foot from...

AQP7: An Endurance Boost Gene?

If ACTN3 is our “speed gene” and genes such as R577X, PPARdelta and GNB3 are linked to human endurance, there must exist an...

AQP7: An Endurance Boost Gene?

If ACTN3 is our “speed gene” and genes such as R577X, PPARdelta and GNB3 are linked to human endurance, there must exist an...

A Pleasant Surprise

It feels strange, almost surreal, to see yourself in a magazine, let alone at some 30,000+ feet. But that's exactly what happened to me on a recent...

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Oct 21 2009 by Allen
Thomas, I really admire you guys who do ultras. You're superhuman!
 
Oct 14 2009 by RunnerDude
Thanks for the vote Thomas!!
 

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