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Trane invites teams of two to compete for once-in-a-lifetime brand-ambassador internship on unstoppable cycling race TYLER, Texas, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR), is launching a national search for an unstoppable duo to serve as its Trane Endurance Team brand ambassadors throughout the 2013 Race Across America (RAAM) Powered by Trane. The world's longest nonstop ultra-endurance cycling race, RAAM is a competition in which cyclists race...

Endocannabinoids motivated the evolution of exercise In the last century something unexpected happened: humans became sedentary. We traded in our active lifestyles for a more immobile existence. But these were not the conditions under which we evolved. David Raichlen from the University of Arizona, USA, explains that our hunter-gatherer predecessors were long-distance endurance athletes. 'Aerobic activity has played a role in the evolution of lots of different systems in the human body,...

The Endurance Paradox: Bone Health for the Endurance Athlete is a new book that explains how athletes can balance endurance exercise and bone health so they can arrive at the start line healthy. Thomas Whipple and Robert Eckhardt provide holistic, simple and effective workout and nutritional strategies in this essential guide for endurance athletes, fitness enthusiasts, coaches and exercise physiologists. State College, PA (PRWEB) June 10, 2011 A new book explains why endurance athletes...

LONDON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- While preproduction has already begun for season 2, International Distribution Company for the Endurance Traveler series, Park Entertainment, signed a contract with NGC Network International for rights to the series, which premiered in the United States last fall on Fox Sports Network. Dean Warhaft, Host and Executive Producer says, "Endurance Traveler is a great fit for Nat Geo Adventure channel because the series is specifically designed so viewers...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tough Mudder, Probably the Toughest Event on the Planet, announced today that CLIF Builder's®, the high protein bar from CLIF Bar & Company, will be the official protein bar for all 2011 Tough Mudder events. As part of the partnership, CLIF will provide financial support and over 100,000 full-size CLIF Builder's for distribution at the remaining 2011 Tough Mudder events. CLIF Builder's have 20 grams of quality soy and nut protein,...

On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and spectrometers during the next several weeks to examine rocks exposed at the crater, informally named "Santa Maria."A mosaic of image frames taken by Opportunity's navigation camera on Dec. 16 shows the crater's sharp rim and rocks ejected from the impact that had excavated the crater.Opportunity...

Jordan McNamara, one of the best milers in the US, has been sponsored by the sports supplement, Extreme Endurance. This clinically proven, drug-free formula, reduces lactic acid and increases aerobic threshold and will be part of Jordan's regimen as he trains for the London games in 2012. Carefree, AZ (PRWEB) October 25, 2010 Extreme Endurance is proud to announce the sponsorship of one of the best endurance athletes in the US, Jordan McNamara. Jordan McNamara is tagged as one of the...

Images that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at the end of an 81-meter (266-foot) drive on Sept. 16 reveal a dark rock about 31 meters (102 feet) away. The rover's science team has decided to go get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock and determine whether it is an iron meteorite."The dark color, rounded texture and the way it is perched on the surface all make it look like an iron meteorite," said science-team member Matt Golombek of NASA's Jet Propulsion...

WATERBURY, Vt., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Ireland's Crossing the Line Films will be filming an ambitious project about the 20th century race to the South Pole on Quark Expeditions' icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov. Travelers aboard the Weddell Sea and South Georgia expedition cruise, November 6 to December 5, 2010, will experience an authentic behind-the-scenes look at the business of documentary film making. Filming will occur in the air from onboard helicopters, on the ship's decks, and on the...

PASADENA, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater on the Red Planet from September 2006 through August 2008. Key findings from that work, reported in the May 22 edition of the journal Science, reinforce and...