{"product_id":"racing-the-clock-bernd-heinrich-9780062973276","title":"Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir, part scientific investigation, \u003cem\u003eRacing the Clock \u003c\/em\u003eis the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do some bodies age differently than others? How much control do we have over that process and what effect, if any, does being active have? Bringing to bear research from his entire career and in the spirit of his classic \u003cem\u003eWhy We Run\u003c\/em\u003e, Heinrich probes the questions of how we use energy and continue to adapt to our mutable surroundings and circumstances. Beyond that, he examines how our bodies change while we age but also how we can work with, if not overcome, many of these changes--and what all this tells us about evolution and the mechanisms of life, health, and happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRacing the Clock \u003c\/em\u003eoffers fascinating and surprising conclusions, all while bringing the reader along on Heinrich's compelling journey to what he says will be his final race--a fifty-kilometer race at age eighty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernd Heinrich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062973274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062973276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021 pg. 73","brand":"Bernd Heinrich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055192404223,"sku":"9780062973276","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c88e445-d1ba-4a3d-a928-6770a12a7dd2.jpg?v=1685034316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/racing-the-clock-bernd-heinrich-9780062973276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}