跑步文章分享

7月分讀者文摘有一篇關於跑步的文章，很有意思，現抄錄如下以饗跑友。

Old Runners Pick Up Speed--It's never too late to put yourself through the paces

If you've been falling back on your age to avoid taking up serious exercise, such as marathon running, you will need to find another excuse.

Scientists at Yale University have found runners over 50, particularly women, actually improve their performance at a greater rate than younger ones.

The team looked at the results for competitors in the New York Marathon over 16 years and found that women runners aged between 50 to 59 shaved an average of 2.08 minutes off thir times each year. By comparison, the men improved only eight seconds a year, though they showed gains up to the age of 79. Yet men and women aged from 20 to 30 did not generally improve at all.

文章就這麼長而已。如果傅兄覺得不過癮，下次我會留意，碰到更長的文章時，再張貼出來，ok?  其實大家有看到相關馬拉松報導，也都可以張貼，分享大家。我曾經想訂美國的Runners World雜誌，但太貴了，買不起，光是零售一本就要台幣330，實在太貴了。

那篇報導重點在第3段，研究者從過去16屆紐約馬拉松參賽者之中發現，50至59歲的女性跑者平均每年進步2.08分，而男性跑 者雖然可以跑到79歲，但只能進步8秒鐘。不論男女，20至30歲毫無進步。

男生輸女生這麼多，讓我想起太座經常引述科學家的論點：從生物進化層面來講，男人是低等動物，女人才是高等動物；男人EQ差，喜 好鬥爭、暴力，女人則堅強、軔性、溫和、愛好和平......總之，男人不如女人。