ArticleJournal of strength and conditioning research2014
Performance trends in large 10-km road running races in the United States.
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- Elderly female ultra-marathoners reduced the gap to male ultra-marathoners in Swiss running races.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Peak Running Velocity or Critical Speed Under Field Conditions: Which Best Predicts 5-km Running Performance in Recreational Runners?Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Age Differences in Pacing in Endurance Running: Comparison between Marathon and Half-MarathonMen and Women.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
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- The Motivational Influence of Milestone Times on 10-km Running Performance.International journal of performance analysis in sport · 2016Article
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Abstract
Our study examines the current trends of runners participating in 10-km road races in the United States. Finish times and ages of all runners participating in 10 of the largest 10-km running races in the United States between 2002-2005 and 2011 were recorded. Linear regression analysis was performed to examine the trends for age, sex, and finishing time for all participants completing the course in <1 hour. A total of 408,296 runners were analyzed. There was a significant annual decrease in the ratio of men to women finishers (p < 0.001, r = 0.976). The average finishing time of the top 10 (men, p ≤ 0.05), 100 (men and women, p ≤ 0.05), and 1,000 (men and women, p < 0.01) significantly decreased annually. The total number of subhour finishers increased annually across all races (194 men per year, r = 0.584, p = 0.045; 161 women per year, r = 0.779, p = 0.008), whereas the percentage of overall finishers completing the course in less than an hour significantly declined for men and women (p ≤ 0.003). There was a significant trend toward younger men in all top groups except for the single fastest runner (p ≤ 0.017). Our study demonstrates that for large 10-km U.S. races: the top men and women seem to be getting faster; there are more subhour finishers, with increasingly more women accomplishing this feat compared with men; an increasingly lower percentage of overall finishers is finishing in <1 hour; and the fastest men are also increasingly younger.
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