Crawling to the Finish Line: Why do Endurance Runners Collapse?: Implications for Understanding of Mechanisms Underlying Pacing and Fatigue

Sports Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 413-424

  St Clair Gibson, Alan ^a   De Koning, Jos J ^b   Thompson, Kevin G ^c   Roberts, William O ^d   Micklewright, Dominic ^e   Raglin, John ^f   Foster, Carl ^g  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; BODY POSTURE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RUNNING; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATHLETES; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POSTURE; RUNNING;

EID: 84878593967     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-013-0044-y     Document Type: Review

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