if all went well.I'd begun at a moderate pace as planned, but when I reached No Name Creek, about four and a half miles in, where I'd intended to start pushing, my body refused to follow the script. My quads and hamstrings tightened then seized, my chest
supplying the muscles begin to die. "If the neurons die, the muscle fibres die," says Hunter. "Sometimes they get regenerated by new neurons, but as you age you can't keep pace with cell death. Training can slow the process, but it won't end it." The atrophy