Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.

Ultrarunning requires extraordinary endurance but the psychological factors involved in successful ultrarunning are not well understood. One widely held view is that fluctuations in mood play a pivotal role in performance during endurance events. However, this view is primarily based on comparisons...

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Autores principales:	Paul Burgum, Daniel T Smith
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c908dff7f37a404faa312c2ebfb2b6eb2021-12-02T20:14:36ZReduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256888https://doaj.org/article/c908dff7f37a404faa312c2ebfb2b6eb2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256888https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Ultrarunning requires extraordinary endurance but the psychological factors involved in successful ultrarunning are not well understood. One widely held view is that fluctuations in mood play a pivotal role in performance during endurance events. However, this view is primarily based on comparisons of mood before and after marathons and shorter running events. Indeed, to date no study has explicitly examined mood changes during a competive ultramarathon. To address this issue, we measured mood fluctuations in athletes competing in the Hardmoors 60, a 100 km, single day continuous trail-ultramarathon, and examined how variation in mood related to performance, as measured by completion time. The key finding was that the variability of athletes Total Mood Disturbance (TMD) score was significantly and positively correlated with completion time, consistent with the idea that mood is an important factor in determining race performance. Athletes also experienced a significant increase in tension immediately prior to race onset. This effect was more pronounced in less experienced athletes and significantly attenuated by measurement stage 1 at 35.4 km, which suggests the effect was driven by the release of pre-competition anxiety. Depression, anger and TMD were significantly lower at the pre-race measurement compared to the baseline measurement taken the week before. Consistent with previous studies, there were also significant increases in fatigue, anger and TMD during the race. The data are interpreted in terms of the Psychobiological model of endurance and may have broader implications for the understanding of endurance performance in other domains.Paul BurgumDaniel T SmithPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256888 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Paul Burgum Daniel T Smith Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
description	Ultrarunning requires extraordinary endurance but the psychological factors involved in successful ultrarunning are not well understood. One widely held view is that fluctuations in mood play a pivotal role in performance during endurance events. However, this view is primarily based on comparisons of mood before and after marathons and shorter running events. Indeed, to date no study has explicitly examined mood changes during a competive ultramarathon. To address this issue, we measured mood fluctuations in athletes competing in the Hardmoors 60, a 100 km, single day continuous trail-ultramarathon, and examined how variation in mood related to performance, as measured by completion time. The key finding was that the variability of athletes Total Mood Disturbance (TMD) score was significantly and positively correlated with completion time, consistent with the idea that mood is an important factor in determining race performance. Athletes also experienced a significant increase in tension immediately prior to race onset. This effect was more pronounced in less experienced athletes and significantly attenuated by measurement stage 1 at 35.4 km, which suggests the effect was driven by the release of pre-competition anxiety. Depression, anger and TMD were significantly lower at the pre-race measurement compared to the baseline measurement taken the week before. Consistent with previous studies, there were also significant increases in fatigue, anger and TMD during the race. The data are interpreted in terms of the Psychobiological model of endurance and may have broader implications for the understanding of endurance performance in other domains.
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title	Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
title_short	Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
title_full	Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
title_fullStr	Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
title_full_unstemmed	Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.
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Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.

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