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Outside Magazine November 2003
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Bodywork: Snow Report 2004
I'm With Stupid (cont.)




On his first easy run, Tom kept his boots slightly loose. Then, before his next run, he buckled them snug; he felt as solid and steady as if bolted onto a roller-coaster rail. Jerry went off a double black diamond and tumbled all the way down.




"The fitter you are, the more noticeable the effects of altitude are going to be," says Benjamin Levine, head of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Institute for Exercise. So Tom eased into a morning of green and blue runs. Jerry kept "shredding."




The windchill hit zero, and Jerry hadn't felt his toes since noon. Tom, however, had dumped some cayenne pepper down his socks and knocked back a shot of ginger tea. "Seriously, Jerry," said Tom. "This stuff works."




Tom stayed sharp, downing a liter of fluids and eating 30 grams of carbohydrates per hour. (A PowerBar has 45 grams, a pack of Gu, 25.) Jerry ate snow, though none of it was yellow.



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