Effects of weather on the performance of marathon runners.

International Journal of Biometeorology
Timo Vihma

Abstract

The effects of air temperature, relative and specific humidity, wind speed, solar shortwave radiation, thermal longwave radiation, and rain on the performance of participants in the annual Stockholm Marathon from 1980 to 2008 were analysed statistically. The objective was to validate and extend previous studies by including data on finishing times of slower male and female runners and on the percentage of non-finishers. Due to decadal trends in the finishing time not related to weather, the finishing time anomaly (FTA) was calculated as the deviation of the annual finishing time from the linear trend of the finishing time. In all categories of runners, the single weather parameter with highest correlation with the FTA was the air temperature (correlation coefficient r = 0.66-0.73, with the highest values for slowest runners). Also, the solar shortwave radiation (r = 0.41-0.71), air relative humidity (r = -0.57 to -0.44) and, for male runners, the occurrence of rain (r = -0.51 to -0.42) reached a statistically significant correlation with the FTA, but the effects of the relative humidity and rain only arose from their negative correlation with the air temperature. The percentage of non-finishers (PNF) was significantly affected ...Continue Reading

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