Jogging improves life expectancy

Leisure-time running reduces all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk. In an American study, 55,137 people were examined at the age of 18 to 100 years on the relationship between jogging and life expectancy.During the 15 years of observation, 3,413 people died, including 1,217 deaths due to cardiovascular diseases.

The risk was 29% to 50% compared to the unsportsman. Surprisingly, even small training sessions of 5-10 minutes per day rich at low speed in order to reduce the risk for an early death at a cardiovascular disease. The work can be read under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25082581/

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Nurmi-Studie

The NURMI-Study (NURMI – Nutrition and Running high Mileage) The Nurmi-Study (Nurmi - Nutrition and Running High Mileage) is an international and interdisciplinary comparative course study that aims to create a broad foundation for scientific statements on the sporting performance of mixed spills compared to vegetarian and vegan runners.

To be able to make sound statements, a large number of subjects is needed. Therefore, we cordially invite all runners (every distance and every level of performance) to participate in the most important study for the running movement to perform something big together. All information is below https://www.nurm-study.com/

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Is the top really older with very long ultra skills?

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.

Article in the St. Galler Tagblatt

The Swiss watch is called him In, St.Galler Tagblatt ‘has written the editorial culture an article in the sense of a back and outlook. The whole text can be found under https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/stgallen/stadstgallen/tb-sr/man-nennt-ihn-Die-schweizer-licht;art190,3967565

H-index and number of citations

H-index and number of citations The H-index is a measure based on the number of citations of the publications of an author at a specific time.A high H-index speaks for a large scientific influence of the author in question. The H-index of an author can not sink over time and actually only increase.You can calculate the H-index yourself or look in Web of Science, Sopus or Google Scholar.However, each source calculates the H-index otherwise so that the value is not quite comparable.Google Scholar is accessible to every human being. For me, the number of quotations are currently on 3226 and the H-index to 27. The work ‘Fat Oxidation in Men and Women Endurance Athletes in Running and Cycling’ in Int J Sports Med. 2004 Jan; 25 (1): 38-44 was most mentioned with 109 citations. Followed this work from ‘Participation and Performance Trends in Ultra Triathlon from 1985 to 2009’ in Scand J Med Sci Sports.2011 Dec; 21 (6): E82-90 The 75 times quoted. The last top ten publication is ‘Upper arm circumference is associated with race performance in ultra-endurance runners‘ in Br J Sports Med. 2008 Apr;42(4):295-9.

The best age for the fastest triathlon time

The best triathletes are older in longer race distances - a comparison between Olympic, half-ironman and ironman distance triathlon For the planning of the best performance in a triathlon race, many details are important.A relatively well-planned value is the age in which the best performance is to be expected. We have compiled the age of the best athletes for the Olympic Distance, half Ironman distance as well as the entire IronMan distance from all international races from 2003-2013. For men, the fastest times over the Olympic distance at 27.1 ± 4.9 years were achieved over half the Ironman distance with 28.0 ± 3.8 years and over the entire Ironman distance at 35.1 ± 3.6 years.It showed that the differences were significantly significant.For women, the fastest times over the Olympic distance at 26.6 ± 4.4 years, over half the Ironman distance, were achieved at 31.6 ± 3.4 years and over the entire Ironman distance at 34.4 ± 4.4 years.Again, the differences were significantly significant.

What influences the pacing in the triathlon?

Factors influencing pacing in triathlon For a triathlon, there are various factors with an impact on performance. The most important are the length of the competition resp.The duration, the dynamics of the race such as windshade driving and the influence by other athletes, then environmental factors such as currents, wind speeds and topography, then the change zones from swimming to cycling and cycling to run, age and gender. A very good compilation of these influencing factors can be found under https://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=18350

Our work in the Social Media

Elite triathletes in ‘Ironman Hawaii’ get older but faster We have analyzed the relationship between age and performance for the top ten finishers on Ironman Hawaii.The work was published in the Journal Age, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23591938/. The results are of practical significance for the athlete.For example, the Triathlet Graeme Stewart, winner of the Celtman 2013, commented on his blog our data, see http://www.graemestewart.com/race-your-age-age-of-peak-performance-in-different-events/. The Economic Student Øystein Hernæs, who is currently studying at the Department of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, has taken our numbers in his blog, see https://oeysteinmhernaes.com/2014/09/05/aging-ironmen/.

Half marathon becomes more popular than marathon

Differences in Participation and Performance Trends in Age Group Half and Full Marathoners We have studied the development of half marathon and marathon from the period 2000 to 2010 for Switzerland.While the number of half marathon runners steadily increased, the marathon runners after 2005 came to a decrease. Most runners were in the age group 40-44 years both for half marathon as well as for marathon.In the half marathon, there was no change in performance in the age groups over the 10 years.For men, it came to a power reduction in age groups 30-34, 40-44 and 50-54 years.In contrast, the marathon runners in ages 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49 and 50-54 years improved performance. Even with men, the marathon in ages 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 45-49 and 55-59 years came to an improvement.