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[RC] RC:Core Temp - Nik Isahak Abdullah

John,
It is back to anatomy .A Kenyan marathoner can pretty well do a 2 hour marathon either in Boston or Kuala Lumpur ,well maybe add a few minutes more .The human surface area compared to the body weight ratio has an index of 1 .Humidity is not critical here
I still remember Donna Snyder Smith wrote in her book about an elite horse rider combination doing a 10 hour ride up north USA and in the same season taking almost 24 hours to complete a 160 in the hottest summer in Texas .As Peter Toft has rightfully asserted ,this is back to a 'raised' Core temperature .Horses surface area to body weight ratio is one fifth of human .This is the 'bottleneck 'in the heat diffussion equation ,the limiting factor.So if you have a horse that can do a 16 kph average in the 2008 WEC you have a horse made in heaven .I would do a DNA testing ,it may be a leopard in disguise !
Nik

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