You Only Think You’re Tired

Check out this NYT article about champion ultra-endurance athlete Jure Robic. Robic isn’t gifted physically, he’s gifted mentally. He is crazy… and I don’t mean he’s got crazy cardio or crazy strength. Something is wrong with his brain. His craziness suppresses his brain’s ability to tell his body to stop.

That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger – New York Times.

In a 2004 race, he turned to see himself pursued by a howling band of black-bearded men on horseback.

‘‘Mujahedeen, shooting at me,’’ he explains. ‘‘So I ride faster.’’

A spate of recent studies has contributed to growing support for the notion that the origins and controls of fatigue lie partly, if not mostly, within the brain and the central nervous system.