Biochemical and hematological changes following the 120-km open-water marathon swim. A Polish group has accompanied a 61-year-old swimmer on his journey over 120 km. The athlete needed 27 hours and 33 minutes for this route.The body core temperature fell from 36.7 ° C to 35.1 ° C.
Read moreDifferent blood levels rose partly considerably. More details about this case under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25177192/
Biochemical cartilage alteration and unexpected signal recovery in T2* mapping observed in ankle joints with mobile MRI during a transcontinental multistage footrace over 4486 km The trans-Europa run over almost 4500 km was measured by a group of runners the cartoon thickness in the ankle.
Read moreIt showed that it came to a cartilage regeneration in the second half of the run. The work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25132208/
Changes in lung function during an extreme mountain ultramarathon. An Italian group has studied the influence of an ultramarathon (330 km and 24'000 meters) on lung function. Before, during and after the course, the runners had to have a battery of lung function tests above themselves.
Read moreIt showed that the lung function has increasingly decreased over the course of the competition. The work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25262823/
Pacing and Mood Changes While Crossing the Adriatic Sea From Italy to Albania: A Case Study. An Italian group has accompanied a swimmer who swimmed 78 km through the Adriatic Sea of Italy to Albania. During the nearly 24 hours of swimming, the float went through heights and depths as well as an increasing fatigue.
Surprisingly, the cortisol levels rose to 23 times the output value. All details about this performance can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25310382/
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Alain Mimoun: Ahead of His Time Prof. Michael Joyner, see https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/joyner-michael-jmd/bio-00078027, has the French runner Alain Mimoun portrated under http://www.drmichaeljoyner.com/alain-mimoun-ahead-of-his-time/. This runner of Algerian descent was 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon before the legendary Emil Zátopek, who came to a sixth goal. In his short film Prof. Joyner shows that Alain Mimoun was trained at 90 years.In mid-2013, he died at the age of 92 years.
This runner is once again a proof that hard training improves survival early in life.
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Human body: The ‘ultra-athletes’ aged 60+ The journalist David Robson wrote an article to the older Ultras in BBC Future.He describes what man can stand up. His work is to be read under https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141111-The-Ultra-athlets-Aged-60
Read moreThe Effect of Course Length on Individual Medley Swimming Performance in National and International Athletes We have examined the effect of different web lengths in short and long lane races for 200 and 400 m pivot swimming and compared swimmers of national level (Switzerland) with international level swimmers (WM). On average, the floats were 4.3% faster on the short point than on the Langbahn.The gender difference of performance was greater than on the short-run than on the Langbahn for international floats, but showed no difference for national floats. The sexual difference is the achievement with increasing route length for both tracks at national floats, in international floats only on the Langbahn. The whole work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25414752/
Read moreIncredible services by 100-year-old swimmers On the one hand, we are looking for the optimal age for top athletes, on the other hand, we also examine the trend of age group athletes.In swimming, there are the World Championships of the Master Age Groups up to 100 years and older. The Canadian Jaring Timmermann, who at the age of 104 in the age category 100-104 years earlier year, achieved two world records, see under https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jaring-timmerman-age-104-sets-2-world-swimming-records-1.2510764. But that was not enough.At the age of 105, he achieved a world record in the age category 105-109 years, see https://www.swimingworldmagazine.com/news/jaring-timmerman-becomes-first-105-year-old-masters-Swimmer-in-history/
Read moreThe phenomenon Ed Whitlock The Canadian Ed Whitlock was born in 1931 and will be 83 years old this year.That is basically not so special. But Ed Whitlock is the first person who has run at over 70 years another marathon under 3 hours, which was in 2003 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon with 2:59:10, see https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20801744/ed-whitlock/. 1 year ago, at the age of 82 he went the marathon in 3:41:58 and set a world record, see https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20808473/ed-whitlock-runs-3-41-marathon-at-age-82/. In the course of his life, he has so far run 11 age history in the marathon, with 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, and 82 years, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25120915/.
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