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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

In the long run ( or ride) do runners wear out sooner than cyclists?

 Tim Noakes, the MD, PhD exercise physiologist from South Africa has suggested that perhaps many years of running and the gravity assisted  pounding might accelerate the aging process at least as regards muscles and tendons.

If that is the case, might a comparison of the decrement in performance over time between long time runners and long time cyclists be useful  tend to confirm or deny that hypothesis.

Noakes and colleagues made that comparison (see here) and things look better for the cyclists.








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