High-Altitude Runner Matt Carpenter Continues to Dominate
February 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under running, the latest
Matt Carpenter runs long distance races at high altitudes, sometimes running up and down a mountainside — 13 miles up and 13 miles down. Carpenter, 44 years old, won 6 of these races last year and set course records in two of them.
At 5’7″ tall and 122 pounds, Carpenter isn’t pulling a lot of weight up the mountainside with him. In a test of his body’s ability to process oxygen, Carpenter scored a 90.2. As a reference point, Lance Armstrong recorded a 81 on the same test. Matt Carpenter’s resting heart rate has been recorded at 33 beats per minute.
According to the NY Times, Carpenter runs for one hour and a half on his “rest” days — 3 hours a day on training days.
Read article: NY Times
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