Metabolic factors limiting performance in marathon runners.

Each year in the past three decades has seen hundreds of thousands of runners register to run a major marathon. Of those who attempt to race over the marathon distance of 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 kilometers), more than two-fifths experience severe and performance-limiting depletion of physiolo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin I Rapoport
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2958805?pdf=render