The Transeurope Footrace Project: longitudinal data acquisition in a cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon

• Main Authors: Schütz, Uwe HW, Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno, Knechtle, Beat, Machann, Jürgen, Wiedelbach, Heike, Ehrhardt, Martin, Freund, Wolfgang, Gröninger, Stefan, Brunner, Horst, Schulze, Ingo, Brambs, Hans-Jürgen, Billich, Christian
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
• Subjects: Bia; North Cape
• Online Access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/78

Abstract Background The TransEurope FootRace 2009 (TEFR09) was one of the longest transcontinental ultramarathons with an extreme endurance physical load of running nearly 4,500 km in 64 days. The aim of this study was to assess the wide spectrum of adaptive responses in humans regarding the differe...