873,000 Finishes Say Men Blow Up Twice as Often
Twenty-seven years of Berlin Marathon data, one uncomfortable truth about who falls apart after 30K.
Berlin is flat. Berlin is cool. Berlin is where you go to run even splits until the tape. Which makes it the perfect laboratory for the marathon’s oldest horror story: the wall.
873,334 finishers. 27 years of data. Men hit the wall about twice as often as women.
The analysis, published this month in Scientific Reports, combed nearly three decades of Berlin Marathon finishes to find out who loses the plot in the second half. The answer is not subtle. Read it at Marathon Handbook.