As the morning sun peeked through the trees, Rodger Kram readied himself for the coming marathon. But not the kind he used to run.
Kram, a physiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, stood next to undergrad James Wilson at the end of a rural dirt road. Each donned a strap of nylon webbing onto his head. Attached to the bottom of their straps — called tumplines — a log rested horizontally across the duo’s lower backs.
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