STUDIES
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about studies in the running, cycling and triathlon industries? Scroll below to view all endurance sport studies.
December 4, 2025
Too Many Endurance Athletes Are Racing on Too Few Carbs, Study Finds
It’s well known that big efforts can’t be completed on pure grit alone. This is why most endurance athletes make it a habit of bringing along some fuel for their workouts and races, be it sports drinks, sugary gels, or chewy gummies. Nutrition can keep gas in your tank so...
December 3, 2025
RunSignup Reports Record-Setting Thanksgiving Day Race Participation
December 3, 2025 /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - RunSignup, the leading US technology provider for endurance events, releases their event participation numbers for Thanksgiving Day 2025, the biggest US running day of the year. This year, the platform had a record 1,330,726 participants registered to participate in 1,056 races across the country,...
December 2, 2025
Strava Releases 12th Annual Year in Sport Trend Report, Revealing That Doomscrolling Is Out, Movement Is In
Strava, the app for active people with over 180 million users across more than 185 countries, today released its 12th annual Year In Sport: Trend Report, revealing a fundamental shift in how younger generations are choosing to connect: they're logging off and lacing up. Running and racing boomed in 2025. Gen...
November 30, 2025
Your marathon brain could be making you sick
Maybe you’ve experienced it: you cross the finish line of your marathon feeling strong, only to wake up a day later with a sore throat and a headache. It turns out the problem might not be the race itself, but everything swirling in your head beforehand. In a study published in the European...
November 17, 2025
Protein Powder Is Under Fire. Experts & Brands React to What It All Means
The protein boom is as strong as ever, but recent news created some doubt as protein powder came under fire in the wake of an explosive Consumer Reports expose. The report, which included results from testing 23 different protein powders and shakes, offered a look into heavy metal contamination across these...
October 30, 2025
Stop Counting Steps—Track Minutes Walking Instead, New Study Says
Tired of your smartwatch reminding you that you haven’t hit 10,000 steps today? It’s time to dismiss the notification. Walking any distance is beneficial for health, even if you don’t reach this popular (but actually, pretty arbitrary) threshold. Outside
October 29, 2025
FindaRace.com shares strategies on reaching and retaining new runners to drive event growth
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Findarace.com, the race calendar and event marketing platform, has published new insights building on Running USA’s Global Runner Survey. Co-Founder David Wearn, comments, ‘We know how hard it is for Race Directors to know where to put their marketing spend for the best results. Running USA’s report...
October 29, 2025
Digging deep: Marathoners go over a kilometre underground to set world records
A field of 55 runners from 18 countries have just ventured where no marathoners have gone before – 1,120 metres below the Earth’s surface – to complete the World’s Deepest Marathon inside Boliden’s Garpenberg zinc mine in Sweden. And they set two new Guinness World Records in the process in an event...
October 28, 2025
Running out of ‘cool days’ — how climate change is affecting marathons
Apart from causing wide-ranging adverse repercussions, climate change is also affecting sports by rapidly shrinking the window of "cool days" that allow marathon runners to achieve their best performances, posing an increasing challenge for athletes and organisers of the world's premier long-distance races. THEW NEWS
October 27, 2025
Men need twice as much exercise as women to lower heart disease risk, study finds
Men may need to exercise twice as much as women to achieve the same reduction in coronary heart disease risk, according to researchers, who say healthy living guidelines should take account of the sex differences. Scientists analysed physical activity records from more than 80,000 people and found that the risk...
