The Transeurope Footrace Project: longitudinal data acquisition in a cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon

Schütz, Uwe HW; Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno; Knechtle, Beat; Machann, Jürgen; Wiedelbach, Heike; Ehrhardt, Martin; Freund, Wolfgang; Gröninger, Stefan; Brunner, Horst; Schulze, Ingo; Brambs, Hans-Jürgen; Billich, Christian

doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-78

Table 1 History of transcontinental footraces

From: The Transeurope Footrace Project: longitudinal data acquisition in a cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon

No	race: date	route	total distance	days, stages	mean stage distance	star -ter^a	fin-isher^a
C.C. Pyle's International Trans-continental Foot Races (Bunion Derbies 1928, 1929) [25–27]
1.	1928: 4 March - 24 May	Los Angeles - New York	5,509 km 3,423 miles	84	65.6 km/d 40.8 miles/d	199	55 28%
2.	1929: 21 March - 8 June	New York - Los Angeles	5,509 km 3,423 miles	84	65.6 km/d 40.8 miles/d	80	31 39%
Trans America Foot Races 1992-95 [28, 29]
3.	1992: 20 June - 22 August	Huntington Beach - New York	4,722 km 2,935 miles	64	73.8 km/d 45.9 miles/d	28	13 46%
4.	1993: 19 June - Aug.21	Huntington Beach - New York	4,686 km 2,912 miles	64	73.8 km/d 45.9 miles/d	13	6 46%
5.	1994: June 18 - 20 August	Huntington Beach - New York	4,708 km 2,926 miles	64	73.6 km/d 45.7 miles/d	14	5 36%
6.	1995: 17 June 17 - 19 August	Huntington Beach - New York	4,676 km 2,906 miles	64	73.1 km/d 45.4 miles/d	14	10 71%
Trans Australia Foot Race 2001
7.	2001: 6 January - 11 March	Perth - Canberra	4,109 km 2,553 miles	63	67.8 km/d 42.1 miles/d	24	14 58%
Run Across America 2002
8.	2002: 15 June - 24 August	New York - Huntington Beach	4,961 km 3,084 miles	71	68.9 km/d 42.8 miles/d	11	8 73%
10.	2004: 15 June - 24 August	Huntington Beach - New York	4,961 km 3,084 miles	71	68.9 km/d 42.8 miles/d	10	6 60%
Trans Europe Foot Races 2003, 2009 [30–33]
9.	2003: 19 April - 21 June	Lisbon, Portugal - Moscow	5,020 km 3,119 miles	64	79.5 km/d 49.4 miles/d	44	22 50%
11.	2009: 19 April - 21 June	Bari, Italy - North Cape	4,486 km 2,787 miles	64	70.1 km/d 43.6 miles/d	67	46 69%
Run Across America 2011: LANY (Los Angeles to New York)
12.	2011: 19 June - 27 August	Huntington Beach - New York	5,157 km 3,205 miles	70	73.7 km/d 45.8 miles/d	14	8 57%

^atotal: 528 starters, 224 finishers. 42.4% (some of these have made more than one crossing)

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