The Combined Effect of Aging and Performance Level on Pacing in Duathlon – the “ITU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon World Championships” The role of age and performance level was examined for runners such as marathon runners, but not in athletes with several sports such as Duathlon (running, cycling and running).The aim of the present study was therefore to examine the combined effects of aging and performance at the pace of Duathlen, which participate in two different spacer races. Pacing (defined as a relative portion of the bicycle time in% for the total time of the race) was analyzed for 6,671 Dathlets, which from 2003 to 2017 in the short distance race (10 km first run, 50 km cycling and 5 km second run) and in the long-distance race (10 km first run, 150 km cycling and 30 km of the second run) of “Powerman Zofingen”, the “ITU Powerman Long-distance Duathlon World Championships”. Men were faster, older and spent less time (%) with cycling as women in both races.Younger age groups spent more time (%) by cycling than their older colleagues in women (both short and long distances) and men (long-distance races).Fast performance groups spent more time (%) by cycling than their slower colleagues.In the short distance of men, an interaction of the small age group × performance group was observed on time (%) - but not in the long distance or in women - with smaller differences between the operating groups of the older group than in the younger age groups. Women, young and fast duathles were relatively slower than men, old and slow duathles in the wheel. That is, old dathlets were relatively faster than running when cycling.
In addition, there was evidence that the difference in pacing could be reduced between the performance groups with age. Since fast dathlets were relatively faster when running than when cycling, slow dathlets should be asked to run slower and run faster. The whole study can be found under https://internal-journal.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00296/Full