5A 113 INCREASING WORKLOAD RELATES TO INJURY RISK IN RUNNING 3. RESULTS 3.1. Workload The 22 runners conducted 13046 training sessions with a total number of 20 139 training hours. The average weekly training hours were 8.9±4.6 and the average duration of a training session was 77.6±39.3 minutes. The session RPE was 12.3±3.1 on the Borg scale, the workload per session was 1031±661 AU, the daily workload was 1241±815 AU. The acute workload per week was 6801±3675 AU, the chronic workload per week was 6750±3185 and the overall corresponding ACWR was 0.99±0.47. The descriptive statistics for the 22 runners’ workload variables split between the weeks preceding the injury and the weeks not preceding an injury are presented in Table 3. Excluding the first four weeks of the study, the weeks in which runners were injured, and the four weeks after recovery from the injury, reduced the number of training weeks by 25.9%, i.e., from 2066 to 1530 weeks of the data set. The frequency distributions of the variables are to be found in Table 4.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjY0ODMw