India M. Clamp’s Reviews > Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance > Status Update

In this account by sports journalist Alex Hutchinson, we explore pushing limits via the practice of pacing, lactate threshold and the brain aka “central governor.” This study concerns the brains way of slowing us down before we reach a complete failure. The “4 minute mile” is highlighted and the achievement by re-training the brain from its default state to one providing the reserves needed for the achievement.