Age, sex and (the) race: gender and geriatrics in the ultra-endurance age In the magazine, Extreme Physiology & Medicine ‘Prof. Whyte from Liverpool commented on a part of our work on extreme duration in an editorial. At the exact contemplation of our graphics, he noticed that a 69-year-old triathlete has undergone a 10-fold Ironman. Then he has also noticed that in the area of extreme duration of the difference between the sexes is 20-30%, so much higher than the usual 10% for the shorter endurance tracks. His very interesting designs can be read below https://extremephysiolmed.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/2046-7648-3-1.pdf