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Impact of injury on ultramarathon performance

Two new bits of research from the same group was recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine: IMPACT OF INJURY PATTERN DURING TRAINING ON ULTRAMARATHON PERFORMANCE M Khodaee, J Spittler, JC Hill, MD Hoffman Br J Sports Med 2014;48:619 doi:10.1136/bjsports-2014-093494.160 Abstracts from the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in […]

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Ultramarathons Cause Less Muscle Damage Than Shorter Races

This is getting more into physiology and outside my areas that I know a lot about, but I still found it interesting! I will start with the abstract: Alterations of Neuromuscular Function after the World’s Most Challenging Mountain Ultra-Marathon Jonas Saugy, Nicolas Place, Guillaume Y. Millet, Francis Degache, Federico Schena, Grégoire P. Millet PLoS ONE […]

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