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Fast men slow more than fast women in a 10 kilometer road race.
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- Variable Pacing Is Associated with Performance during the OCCInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in Endurance Running.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
- Pacing Profiles of Middle-Distance Running World Records in Men and Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Pacing profiles and tactical behaviors of elite runners.Journal of sport and health science · 2021Review
- How recreational marathon runners hit the wall: A large-scale data analysis of late-race pacing collapse in the marathon.PloS one · 2021Article
- Training and Racing Behavior of Recreational Runners by Race Distance-Results From the NURMI Study (Step 1).Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Expanding the Gap: An Updated Look Into Sex Differences in Running Performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- Longer Disciplined Tapers Improve Marathon Performance for Recreational Runners.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Tower Running-Participation, Performance Trends, and Sex Difference.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Pacing of Women and Men in Half-Marathon and Marathon Races.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- The Effect of Sex and Performance Level on Pacing in Duathlon.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- The effect of sex and performance level on pacing in cross-country skiers: Vasaloppet 2004-2017.Journal of sport and health science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Background. Previous studies have demonstrated that men are more likely than women to slow in the marathon (footrace). This study investigated whether the sex difference in pacing occurs for a shorter race distance. Materials & Methods. Data were acquired from the Bolder Boulder 10 km road race for the years 2008-2013, which encompassed 191,693 performances. There were two pacing measures, percentage change in pace of the first 3 miles relative to the final 3.2 miles and percentage change in pace of the first mile relative to the final 5.2 miles. Pacing was analyzed as a continuous variable and as two categorical variables, as follows: "maintain the pace," defined as slowing <5% and "marked slowing," defined as slowing ≥10%. Results. Among the fastest (men < 48:40; women < 55:27) and second fastest (men < 53:54; women < 60:28) sex-specific finishing time sextiles, men slowed significantly more than women with both pacing measures, but there were no consistently significant sex differences in pacing among the slower four sextiles. For the fastest sextile, the odds for women were 1.96 (first pacing measure) and 1.36 (second measure) times greater than men to maintain the pace. For the fastest sextile, the odds for women were 0.46 (first measure) and 0.65 (second measure) times that of men to exhibit marked slowing. Multiple regression indicated that being older was associated with lesser slowing, but the sex difference among faster runners persisted when age was controlled. Conclusions. There was a sex difference in pacing during a 10 km race where glycogen depletion is not typically relevant. These results support the hypothesis that the sex difference in pacing partly reflects a sex difference in decision making.
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