Normally I’d be worried at finding myself fantasising about opening a beer at 6.45am on a Monday – but normal is in short supply this morning, as I blunder along the shores of Lake Waikaremoana with two blokes I used to describe as my running mates. (“Running” doesn’t quite cover the activity Luke,

Five years ago, soon after he turned 29, Adam Alter, a South African-born, Australian-raised academic living in New York, was struck by a sudden realisation: in less than a year, barring calamities, he’d be 30. Maybe he shouldn’t have been so surprised, given that his job, as a professor of

In 1672 the eminent Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf published one of the defining works in the history of biology, unravelling many of the mysteries of the human reproductive system at a time when microscopic techniques were still in their infancy. But alongside De Graaf’s many detailed sketches

Even routine runners have off days where legs feel like lead or motivation is just lacking. There's a seriously easy way to help make those workouts seem shorter and less painstaking: By creating visual goals along your route. A new study from New York University found that keeping your eye on the

Things I should know never to do: make statements such as, “Yes, the marathon training is going well!” and, “I’ve never had any problems with my knees, not ever!” That’ll teach me to tempt fate. I spent the whole of last week hobbling around with a swollen knee. Going down tube station stairs with