rojo wrote:
Now the cumulative time would be a WR that I'd be interested in knowing about.
Maybe we should start a new marathon WR. 7 marathons in 7 days. Total time.
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Since the first edition of a Deca Iron ultra-triathlon in 2006 (Knechtle et al. 2008a), several races of this kind have been held mainly in Monterrey, Mexico (Herbst et al. 2011; Knechtle et al. 2012a). However, in autumn 2013, ultra-endurance triathletes in Lonato des Garda, Italy, intended to go for new limits by organizing a Triple Deca Iron ultra-triathlon, where the athletes had to finish each day an Ironman triathlon for 30 consecutive days. In the same race, a second group of athletes competed in a separate Deca Iron ultra-triathlon to finish ten Ironman triathlons within ten consecutive days.
The aim of the present study was therefore to compare the changes in performance over days for both Triple Deca Iron ultra-triathletes and Deca Iron ultra-triathletes. Based upon previous findings in field studies for Deca Iron ultra-triathletes and in the case study with the 33 Ironman triathlons it was hypothesized that performance would decrease in Deca Iron ultra-triathletes, but not in Triple Deca Iron ultra-triathletes.