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		IAmBroom 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour m... Horses don't eat during races (and aren't evolutionarily disposed to marathons, anyway). No edge there; it takes quite a while for their symbiotic gut flora to downconvert fodder to glucose.

teiferer 24 days ago [–]

My gut flora won't do that, so they do have an edge. (Not during a marathon, but that wasn't my point anyway.)

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