Appears in collection : Mathematics and mouvement in sport - 13/03/2018

Running in the mountains, i.e. trail running is not the same thing as “traditional” road running. Indeed, trail running is a succession of uphill and downhill paths. Therefore, the performance models available in the literature for road running are not accurate for trail running. Some recent studies focused on modelling running performance during uphill sessions. However, based on race time analysis and athletes feedbacks, the ability of running downhill is more important than the ability of running uphill to win a race.

Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine the performance criteria during downhill trail running, whether it is from a technical, muscular, perceptual or psychological point of view.

Around the Mathematical Week "Mathematics and movement", half a day is dedicated to mathematical issues related to movements in sports. It will take place on Tuesday, March 13th from 9am to 12pm at Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris. This event will bring together researchers and industries to discuss the challenges of tomorrow.