By Kirk Brand, an EO Austin member and the CEO and managing director of TEN Energy Labs.
My runner came into the 50-mile aid station 14 pounds dehydrated. He had lost more than 10 percent of his body weight in the past 12 hours. The on-site doctor was concerned that he would not be able to rehydrate to complete the last half of the infamous Leadville Trail 100 ultra-marathon. (more…)