Can participants predict where ambulance-requiring cases occur at a half marathon?
Finn NilsonFredrik LindbergGunnar PalmLinnea LundgrenDavid RaynerMats BörjessonSofia ThorssonAmir Khorram-ManeshEric CarlströmPublished in: Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports (2018)
By asking participants where they found the race most exhausting it seems possible to identify high-risk places for an ARC. From a practical perspective, using this method could considerably increase the safety of competitors as well as improving the cost-effectiveness of safety interventions at endurance races. Further studies are needed to understand the specific risk factors of the high-risk areas as well as characteristics of collapsed runners.