Running in the wild: Energetics explain ecological running speeds.

ABSTRACT: Human runners have long been thought to have the ability to consume a near-constant amount of energy per distance traveled, regardless of speed, allowing speed to be adapted to particular task demands with minimal energetic consequence.^1-3 However, recent and more precise laboratory measures indicate that humans may in fact have an energy-optimal running speed.^4-6 Here, we characterize runners' speeds in a free-living environment and determine if preferred speed is consistent with task- or energy-dependent objectives. We analyzed a large-scale dataset of free-living runners, which was collected via a commercial fitness tracking device, and found that individual runners preferred a particular speed that did not change across commonly run distances. We compared the data

SUBMITTER: Selinger JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9169516 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature