Will the age of peak ultra-marathon performance increase with increasing race duration? When you go through previous analysis, it seems that with increasing route length the peak runners are always older.If one compares the age of the fastest marathon runners with the age of the fastest 100 km runners, the Ultralaufen are significantly older than the marathon runners. To find out if it is effective a trend that the best runners are really older on the very long ultrasides, it is best to analyze a series of runs with increasing route length resp.Duration of the competition. Timely aligned runs of 6 hours to 10 days are best suited.We have now examined the development from 1975 to 2012 regarding the age of the top runners.
If you now take the achievements of the fastest runners for each competition duration, so surprisingly shows that the age of the fastest runners does not increase with the competition duration.In addition, significant differences between the sexes are available. Looking at the women, the age was the deepest for over 10 days (37 years) and over 48 hours (48 years) highest. For men, the best runners were over 6 hours (35 years) and 12 hours (37 years) younger than the best runners over 72 hours (48 years), 6 days (48 years) and 10 days (48 years). The entire evaluation can be read below https://bmcsportscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2052-1847-6-36