Scaling in Athletic World Records
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2017-05-10 v1
Abstract
World records in athletics provide a measure of physical as well as physiological human performance. Here we analyse running records and show that the mean speed as a function of race time can be described by two scaling laws that have a breakpoint at about 150-170 seconds (corresponding to the ~1,000 m race). We interpret this as being the transition time between anaerobic and aerobic energy expenditure by athletes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0003042,
title = {Scaling in Athletic World Records},
author = {Sandra Savaglio and Vincenzo Carbone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0003042},
year = {2017}
}
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published in the Brief Communication section of Nature