{"id":18315,"date":"2026-08-30T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/altitude-camp\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:44:38","slug":"altitude-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/altitude-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"What a month at altitude actually does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red cells, sleep and the two weeks after coming down, measured on twelve distance runners. What a month at altitude actually does.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-blood\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The blood<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haemoglobin mass rose an average of 3.8% over four weeks \u2014 in nine of the twelve. The other three sleep badly at altitude and gained nothing except a month away from home.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"anps-statband wp-block-sportpulse-stat-band\"><div class=\"anps-sechead\"><p class=\"anps-sechead__kicker\">\/\/ Twelve runners, four weeks<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-statband__grid anps-statband__grid--inline\" style=\"--anps-statband-cols:3\"><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">+3.8%<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Haemoglobin mass, average<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">9<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Responders<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">14<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Days to peak after descent<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-timing\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The timing<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The benefit peaks two weeks after coming down and is gone by the sixth. A camp that ends a month before the target race is a camp for nothing.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The track at the camp, 2,100 metres up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red cells, sleep and the two weeks after coming down, measured on twelve distance runners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[122,214,227],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-18315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-distance","tag-recovery","tag-sport-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=18315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}