Ultramarathon in extreme cold

Maintained Hydration Status After a 24-h Winter Mountain Running Race Under Extremely Cold Conditions Most ultra-based ultra-related climate is held.In this study, the liquid budget was examined at 20 finishers of a 24-hour running at a temperature of around 14 ° C. It showed, among other things, that experienced runners were less drank than less experienced runners and overall the runners drank very little per strain lesson.Although the runners so little drank their fluid balance stable.

The influence of an ultramarathon on the heart

Acute Responses of Novel Cardiac Biomarkers to a 24-h Ultra-Marathon It has long been known that extremely long running loads affect the heart. In this study, various cardiac biomarkers were measured before, during and after a 24-hour run, as well as the heart with echocardiograpy examined.

For the 14 runners, which achieved an average of 150 km, a significant increase in biomarkers and a change in the diastolic filling. The full article can be found under https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/1/57

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Motivation im Ultralaufen

What Really Drives Runners to Go Really, Really Long? The magazine Runner’s World has recently picked up our articles published in Psychology Research and Behavior Management and presented a broad audience. The comment can be found under https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a25728785/what-motivates-Ultrarunners-study/

Liquid supply in long loads

Proper Hydration During Ultra-endurance Activities. The American researcher Martin Hoffman from California has put together today’s state of knowledge of the supply of fluid in very long endurance charges. He concludes that the athletes are not allowed to drink too much and there is no reason for an additional supply of salt. There is no reason that a weight loss must be corrected under load due to increased fluid supply. The very insightful article can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30601394/

Who participates in ultra events

Participation Trends of Ultra Endurance Events The German researcher Volker Scheer from Paderborn has studied the existing literature on ultra events (competitions over 6 hours and longer) for running, swimming, cycling, cross-country skiing and triathlon. It shows that the number of participants has increased exponentially over the past 25 years.This increase is returned to the number of women and the older athletes. The article can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30601393/

What influences the competition time at a triathlon

Predicting Elite Triathlon Performance: A Comparison of Multiple Regressions and Artificial Neural Networks A German group has studied what variables influence the competition time in an Olympic triathlon. They determine aspects of body construction as well as physiological variables based on a stress test.

The authors concluded the aspects of body construction such as shoulder and pelvic width and various physiological variables have an impact on the competition time. The evaluation can be found under https://sciendo.com/article/10.1515/ijcss-2017-0009

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Nutrition in extreme duration

Nutrition in Ultra-Endurance: State of the Art Athletes participating in endurance sports should deal with nutritional questions, especially with regard to the energy and fluid budget.An extreme duration race - which lasts at least 6 hours after definition - can lead to an energy deficit of up to 7'000 kcal per day. Such a high negative energy balance is a weighty problem for health and performance, as it leads to events such as long-distance swimming, long-distance wheel driving and long-distance running to a decrease in the fat and skeletal muscle. The so-called sportsanemia caused by strong physical stress and gastrointestinal discomfort under very hot or very cold environmental conditions must also be considered as an important factor in health and performance in extreme duration.In addition, liquid losses can achieve by welding up to 2 l / h due to increased metabolism for prolonged training and in a hot environment, which can lead to a hypohydration. Athletes have an increased risk of stress-associated hyponatremia and swelling of the limbs when fluid intake is too high.

12-hour run at 95 years

Pacing during and physiological response after a 12-hour ultra-marathon in a 95-year-old male runner In recent years, outstanding achievements of older people was reported up to 100 years.In this case study, the pacing was described during and the recreational phase after a 12-hour run for a 95-year runner.The athlete reached a total distance of 52.987 km. The pacing followed a parabolic pattern (U-shaped) in which the speed decreased to the middle of the race and then increased again.However, no final spurt was observed. If you divide the race in quartiles, a great effect of the first quarter was observed to speed, with the second quarter of slower than the first quarter and on.The smallest variability was shown in the first quarter and the largest in the second quarter. During the recreational phase, erythrocytes, hemoglobin and hematocrit took, while thrombocytes and leukocytes decreases.The metabolites CRP, GOT, GPT, Y-GT, CK and LDH were increased after the race and decreased again during regeneration on the reference area. In addition, creatinine and urea decreased during recovery.The creatinine clearance rose during the recovery phase.Sodium increased during the recovery phase and remained constant in the reference range. During regeneration, body fat and visceral fat mass decreased, while body water and muscle mass increases.

Aspirin for prophylaxis?

Aspirin to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes with High Coronary Artery Calcium Scores While a successful Reanimation has improved the survival after a cardiac arrest during road runs in Japan, this achievement no longer deals with the coronary heart disease as the cause of an increasing frequency of cardiac arrest in Middle-aged men during marathons and Ironman triathlons. Based on the high prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease through the use of cardiac computed tomography at endurance awards with low profiles of the cardiac highway factor, we recommend the calcium values of coronary artery in the CT as a more reliable and independent predictor for cardiac events, including death, as among adults aged 3046 years confirmed.