Alex Hutchinson
Science journalist on endurance and human performance; writes Outside's Sweat Science.
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- Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist based in Toronto who writes about fitness, endurance sports and the outdoors.
- He has written Outside magazine's Sweat Science column from 2017.
- His books include the New York Times bestseller Endure and The Explorer's Gene (2025).
- He trained as a physicist and ran for Canada's national team.
Key facts
- Based in
- Toronto1
- Writes
- Sweat Science column for Outside (from 2017; before that a similar column for Runner's World); columns for the Globe and Mail and Canadian Running1
- Books
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (New York Times bestseller); The Explorer's Gene (March 2025)1
- Newsletter
- Sweat Science, roughly once a month2
- Awards
- Lowell Thomas Award for adventure travel writing in the New York Times; National Magazine Award for energy reporting in Popular Mechanics1
- Before
- PhD in physics, University of Cambridge; postdoctoral researcher with the US National Security Agency on quantum computing and nanomechanics; middle- and long-distance runner for the Canadian national team1
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