BYCHRIS RASH AND ALEX FRISINA

High Altitude Training

Reason for experiment

As you look at many marathon races every year the people who tend to win are from Kenya, which has a elevation of 17,057 (at its highest point). Which brought the question to mind if that played a large effect in there ability to outrun everyone else.

Hypothesis

Higher elevation training helps when preparing for long distance races.

Variables

Independent - The elevation the

participants train at.

Dependent - The times the groups

run.

Controls

The controls in this process are the age range (21-25), the diet we place the groups on, their running regiment and also the elevation they are placed at.

Groups

We are going to have six groups consisting of ten people each.

Three of which are going to have a strict diet, while the other three will not change there normal diet.

All the groups will be on the same running regiment weather they are dieting or not.

Both the diet and non-diet groups will be placed at three separate altitudes.

Group 1

Group 1aPlaced at average

elevation or 4,000 ftFollowing a strict

diet.

Group 1bPlaced at 10,000 ftFollowing a strict diet

Group 2

Group 2aPlaced at average

elevation or 4,000 ftFollowing a strong

diet.

Group 2bPlaced at 12,000 ftFollowing a strict

diet.

Group 3

Group 3aPlaced at average

elevation or 4,000 ftFollowing a strong

diet.

Group 3bPlaced at 15,000 ftFollowing a strong

diet.

Groups 4-6

Will be broken up the same way as groups 1-3. But without a strict diet to follow.

ConclusionWe will have all six groups run a 5k (3.1 miles) at average elevation after one month of training.And come to a conclusion from our data to determine weather our hypothesis is true or not.

The runners will race three times to make up for off-days and such.