کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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979252 | 933332 | 2006 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Some regularities in popular marathon races are identified in this paper. It is found for high-performance participants (i.e., racing times in the range [2:15,3:15] h), the average velocity as a function of the marathoner's ranking behaves as a power-law, which may be suggesting the presence of critical phenomena. Elite marathoners with racing times below 2:15 h can be considered as outliers with respect to this behavior. For the main marathon pack (i.e., racing times in the range [3:00,6:00] h), the average velocity as a function of the marathoner's ranking behaves linearly. For this racing times, the interpersonal velocity, defined as the difference of velocities between consecutive runners, displays a continuum of scaling behavior ranging from uncorrelated noise for small scales to correlated 1/f1/f-noise for large scales. It is a matter of fact that 1/f1/f-noise is characterized by correlations extended over a wide range of scales, a clear indication of some sort of cooperative effect.
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 365, Issue 2, 15 June 2006, Pages 509–520