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For races that would stretch out over more than one night, runners take one or more catnaps lasting between 10 and 30 minutes. Most choose to sleep at night at aid stations, where participants are also given food and water.
Improving your endurance through training is possible by improving the aerobic glycolysis system and building up the number of mitochondria in your body. A solid understanding of the physiology behind endurance training will help you develop sustainable increases in your performance.
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Understanding the science and physiology behind endurance training will help you make the right training decisions.
This is because they have an aerobic base capable of producing energy aerobically at more increased efforts than the untrained individual. They can work harder for longer without relying on anaerobic glycolysis.
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While some aspects of endurance physiology, such as VO2max, distribution of muscle fiber types, and biomechanics are relatively fixed by genetics, increasing the number of mitochondria in your muscle cells is very trainable.
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Individuals who prefer or find more success in weeks of high-volume activity (for example, the 200-mile weeks that some professional marathon runners will complete leading up to competition) rely on the massive contributions that such training makes to their muscular endurance and aerobic base via mitochondrial biogenesis.