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Endurance exercise and heart health, is there a definitive link? The idea that endurance exercise like running marathons and riding long distance bike races may be harmful rather than beneficial to the heart has been around for a very long time. In the year 490 BC, the fittest runner in Greece, Pheidippides, ran 26 miles …