The effect of aging on pacing strategies of cross-country skiers and the role of performance level The participation of Masterathlets in training and competition has increased in recent decades. However, there is still little known whether these athletes differ in performance aspects such as the pacing of their younger colleagues. We have studied the combined effect of age and performance (competition time) to the pace on the vassalauf. We analyzed all around 80,000 finishers from 2012 to 2017 after their competition time in 10 groups.
We found that the masterathlets - regardless of their competition time - had a relatively uniform pace. The whole evaluation can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29721101/