The Boston Marathon versus the World Marathon Majors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare finish times across WMM races for Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York Marathons.

Methods

Race times of the top 10 male and 10 female finishers were analyzed from 2005 to 2014 using the high-performance mixed linear model procedure in the Statistical Analysis System. Venue-to-venue comparisons, as well as comparisons between Boston and other WMM races, with and without factors of temperature, humidity and altitude change were examined.

Results

Performance from 2005 to 2014 in the WMM races was found to improve at a rate of ~1% each 7 years. Despite its higher variability, comparison between Boston's estimated mean finishing time and all other venues revealed moderate positive differences, indicating the Boston event to be typically slower th

SUBMITTER: Maffetone PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5581174 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature