The Perfect Stride: Can Alberto Salazar straighten out American distance running?

At first, Salazar’s scheme was bizarrely complex. Among other things, he arranged for the design of a sealed house near the Nike campus in which athletes would sleep in rooms with varied amounts of oxygen. He also used an obscure computer program from Russia that claimed to measure an athlete’s fatigue level using electrodes that tracked variations in heart rate and in a runner’s “omega brain waves.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,123 words)
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