Comparison marathon runners and ironman triathlets
A Comparison of Anthropometric and Training Characteristics between Recreational Female Marathoners and Recreational Female Ironman Triathletes If you are looking for variables that are important for the prediction of the Ironman competition time in triathlets, the marathon best time is a highly significant variable. This leads to the question of whether similarities between Ironman triathlets and marathon runners are available.We have compared training and characteristics of body construction between Ironman triathlets and marathon runners. The triathlets were younger and had a thinner skin fold thickness on three places on the upper body while the skin fold was thicker thicker.The triathlets invested more training hours per week and ran faster than the marathon runners in training.
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