New technology offers more and more data on performance, even for amateurs. But is blood testing just a path to worry, and potentially worse?
Six months of waiting. A year of training. Perhaps a lifetime of dreaming. The race is finally underway, yet you feel rundown and lacklustre. There is a scientific term for it, but let’s just call it a bad race day. Everyone has experienced it, from Paula Radcliffe to yours faithfully (occasional amateur).
The next generation of running technology, and in particular more accessible blood testing, promises to help avoid such frustrating and unexplained dips in performance. We can monitor our heart rates and sleep, but within five years we could have instant access to a whole range of data linked to physical performance, including red blood cell count and vitamin D and iron levels.
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