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Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News

The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists analysing a 3,000 mile run, the Tour de France and other elite events. They showed the cap was 2.5 times the body's resting metabolic rate, or 4,000 calories a day for an average person.

Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News

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