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Dr Pushpa Chandra World Marathon Challenge 2018

Jun 28

How Dr Pushpa Chandra prepares for extreme ultramarathons

7 marathons on 7 continients in 7 daysTo celebrate her 50th birthday, Dr Pushpa Chandra, an extreme ultramarathoner, successfully competed on all 7 continents over a period of several months. For her 60th birthday, she went more extreme! Dr Chandra ran 7 marathons of 42.2 km (26.2 miles) on each of 7 continents in just […]

Dec 30

Airline Pilot fatigue: many fall asleep at the controls

By Dr Pushpa Chandra

The issue of pilot fatigue has a long history of discussion, debate and regulation, but we are still hearing pilots complaining about it. It isn’t going away and it’s probably getting worse. Although flying is relatively safe, there is plenty of evidence that, with a commercial flight taking off somewhere in the world, every second […]