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Alex Hutchinson

Exercise-science journalist; writes the Sweat Science column for Outside and a newsletter of the same name, and is the author of Endure and The Explorer’s Gene.

13 books on the record · 9 Dec 2025 – 6 Jul 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Endurance Artist by Jared Beasley

There are some fairly obvious picks (Nick Thompson’s The Running Ground; Jared Beasley’s The Endurance Artist, about Lazarus Lake and the Barkley Marathons).

on sweatscience.substack.com · 9 Dec 2025 · Report

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The Game by Ken Dryden

The Game, one of the great sports books of all time, written four decades ago by goaltending legend Ken Dryden, who died a few months ago

on sweatscience.substack.com · 9 Dec 2025 · Report

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The Running Ground by Nicholas Thompson

Every December, I share a list of books that I’ve enjoyed this year, most with at least a loose tie-in to the Sweat Science themes of endurance, fitness, and science. This year’s holiday list just went up at Outside. There are some fairly obvious picks (Nick Thompson’s The Running Ground

on sweatscience.substack.com · 9 Dec 2025 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.