{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Colosseum | Health & Performance","title":"Hardrock Records, 100 HYROXs, and PUMA’s Athlete Pipeline","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3295,"description":"This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance.\nExperience is having a moment. At the Hardrock 100 — 102 brutal miles and 33,000 feet of climbing through Colorado's San Juan Mountains — 50-year-old Ludovic Pommeret won for the third straight year and smashed the overall course record (21:11:36), while Courtney Dauwalter took her fourth title and reset her own clockwise record. It sparks a bigger debate we dig into: in ultra-endurance, do experience and durability beat raw youth and VO2 max? Then there's a feat that sounds impossible — one athlete became the first ever to complete 100 HYROX Pro races in 100 consecutive days, running 800 km and grinding through 800 stations without a single day off, on a Puma-built course recognized by the German Record Institute. Speaking of Puma, we break down Project Podium, the biggest sub-elite program in HYROX history, which turns every solo podium finisher at the Stockholm World Championships into a sponsored Puma athlete.\nOn the science side, a UK Biobank study of nearly 83,000 people found that heavy evening light exposure (over 1,000 lux between 8 and 11:30 PM) was linked to meaningfully higher rates of age-related eye disease — 31% for macular degeneration and 47% for glaucoma — which sends us down a rabbit hole on indoor LEDs, natural light, and circadian health. And we close on a simple, cheap tool blowing up online: why cooled potatoes — the single most filling food ever tested on the satiety index — turn into resistant starch that may help with fat loss and blood sugar.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7tuPWtGzB4VZWD-SOt52XBn_D9_i6afR7P3Pmrw4i2Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ZmVi/OGExOWU4OGI0ZjI3/YWYzOTAyNGMyMTM5/Zjk5Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}