He felt the mile was an overlooked distance, neither a sprint nor an endurance run.

The researchers concluded that 'three weeks of post-exercise sauna-bathing produced a worthwhile enhancement of endurance running performance, probably by increasing blood volume'.

This style of scavenging would have benefitted from endurance running much more than opportunistic scavenging.

Depending on the rules and terrain, navigation sports such as foot orienteering and rogaining may contain periods of endurance running within the competition.

Oxidative damage and muscle tissue breakdown happens all the time in endurance running so athletes need to eat foods high in protein in order to repair these muscle tissues.