Mood, Illness and Injury Responses and Recovery with Adventure Racing Nat Anglem, MBChB, FACSP, Samuel J.E. Lucas, BPhED (Hons), BSc, Elaine A. Rose, PhD, James D. Cotter, PhD  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 30-38 (March 2008) DOI: 10.1580/07-WEME-OR-091.1 Copyright © 2008 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 For 11 athletes (hollow symbol) sampled before, during, and at completion of the race, and for 27 athletes (including 8 of the previous 11; solid symbol) sampled across 2 weeks following the race. a, Reported sleep duration. b, Prevalence and mean severity of pain. c, Ratings of mood scores for fatigue, vigor, and depression. Data are means ±SD. * denotes P<.05 between prerace and finish; † denotes P<.05 relative to value on second day of racing; ‡ denotes P<.05 relative to value on recovery day 13. See text for details on sampling procedures and inferential analyses Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2008 19, 30-38DOI: (10.1580/07-WEME-OR-091.1) Copyright © 2008 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 a, Prevalence, and b, mean severity of symptoms reported before (n=60), during (n=11), at the finish (n=49), and for 2 weeks following the race (n=27). Symptoms rated as being of mild severity equated to athletes being permitted to race as normal, whereas moderate equated to them having to modify their racing Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2008 19, 30-38DOI: (10.1580/07-WEME-OR-091.1) Copyright © 2008 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions