20-40 Aging of physical decline inevitable?

It is generally accepted as an indisputable fact that the human body deteriorates significantly in the 20-40 age natural aging, and can not wait for energy, strength and longevity than twenty years, taken when she was about forty years. Just to see how few professional baseball, basketball and soccer players are still playing when they are trying to reach their forties, and the few that make it so far, those in their early athletic when they reach theadvanced age for athletes. Case closed. Right? Not so fast.

To tell the truth or error of this belief that the aging of our resistance, resilience and means to constantly inevitable downhill slide test, we need a sports physical properties make these the best tests of our most important team sports. A good candidate for the job would run long distance. Which would be better to check the strength and longevity of people of different ages, as a comparison of their time in a10K (6.2 miles), 10-Miler and marathon 26.2 miles? Why stop there? How about a race of 100 miles? It would be even better.

Only a race of 100 miles, but do not. For a real test, it took a call that the best young ultra-marathon runners are attracted. We have 100 Mile Trail National Championships, a U.S. track & field race punished, Ohio run July 31 to August 1 2010 in Cuyahoga Falls, the Burning River 100 Mile Endurance Run course. As wasa competition of national championship, has attracted many if not most of the 20 - and 30-year runners, so they can see exactly how the place of 40 runners something in head to head with young people.

The course was difficult to cross with virtually no long stretches of flat land on which was pretty up and down the entire 100 miles! Remember taxes uphill of the cardiovascular system, while departures to submit to pound the leg muscles. On top of that, thinkCleveland / Akron, Ohio, in the middle of summer - that's right - hot and humid. It would be a real challenge for the top 40 and older runners to try to keep up with the best in the 20 - and 30 years, runner.

Were older runners can take their challenge in this final resistance and strength? Let's see. The championship race on the banks of the Cuyahoga River and through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park began with 249 runners, but because ofThe rugged terrain and difficult over time, only 166 made the finish. Although the race was a 34-year-old Todd was Braj in 15 hours 29 minutes, playing directly behind him in second place Godal Mark, 40. Even more impressive was that the aging of the view that the third place went to Jack Pilla Charlotte, Vermont - A 52-YEAR-OLD! In fact, 13 of 20 were men 40 and older, go with the number 20 on a 60-YEAR-OLD!

Women teachers are not too shabby,either. In fact she was better than the men competing for the same sex, because the first three places went to women in their forties. Annette Bedrosky, 43, took first for women (and sixth overall) with a course record 16:44. This means that the dozens of elite women distance runners in the ultra-twenties and thirties, this course has raged over the years, not in a position almost on time Annette had come, because the record about two hours.

Alsoagainst the former course record (their record) 46 years, Connie Gardner, who came in second (Connie was no longer an excuse, just for two weeks and a half before had the race Badwater 135 mile race through their Death Valley, said the world's toughest race, a race where - despite the almost unbearable heat and three mountain passes - took second place in the women with a long-endurance challenge 30 hours and 35 minutes) . Larissa Abramiuk,41, of Wayland, Mass., was third and 19th full.

There you have it. In a race in the national championship, that some of the best ultra-marathon runners moved to the country, have taken on the forty and older, two of the top three for men and women for a tabula rasa.

There is a better test of their endurance, strength and longevity as a race of 100 miles on foot over rough terrain in the heat and humidity of summer in Ohio? The results of this race - thisMaster runners - prove that aging does not mean a steady decline in the physical body. When the runners 40 and better able to compete successfully with those in their twenties and thirties at the highest level of competition, physical as most of the decline to the majority of people aged 20-40 is not inevitable result of aging, but is self-imposed.