No Improvement in Race Performance by Naps in Male Ultra-Endurance Cyclists in a 600-km Ultra-Cycling Race. In a competition in the area of extreme duration there are various possibilities of tactics. On the one hand, in deep intensity without breaks, you can go through the competition, or you can make breaks and after a recovery, if necessary, faster.We examined at a 600 km long cycle race, whether drivers with breaks faster in the finish are as a driver who do not break any breaks.
It showed that the cyclists without breaks completed the race faster than the drivers with breaks. The details can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22559737/