Andy told me that most data (if not all) available on the Trimp system was done using short duration event. I didn't ask him to define "short duration" though.
I guess this depends on his definition of short. Most of the published studies are for 5 km runs and up. Typically subjects are distance runners, triathletes, soccer players. The shortest duration I can find the model applied to is a test on a (single) elite 1500 m runner.
An interesting side note: the original TRIMP model -- which resulted in the 45-day decay time for fitness that many models inherit, etc -- was developed using 4-5 km running data, with n=2 subjects, both of whom were developers of the model! (Banister and Morton) I guess they're following in the footsteps of MDs who experiment on themselves.
Andy told me that most data (if not all) available on the Trimp system was done using short duration event. I didn't ask him to define "short duration" though.
I guess this depends on his definition of short. Most of the published studies are for 5 km runs and up. Typically subjects are distance runners, triathletes, soccer players. The shortest duration I can find the model applied to is a test on a (single) elite 1500 m runner.
An interesting side note: the original TRIMP model -- which resulted in the 45-day decay time for fitness that many models inherit, etc -- was developed using 4-5 km running data, with n=2 subjects, both of whom were developers of the model! (Banister and Morton) I guess they're following in the footsteps of MDs who experiment on themselves.
