Test day 3 (long‐distance and sprint running performance)
Performance tests were conducted on a banked 200‐m indoor track and field. 10 min of individual warm‐up, including 2–4 short sprints, preceded a sprint running test of 300 m. After the sprint test, subjects rested for 30 min before the long‐distance running test of 3000 m, of which the last 10 min were dedicated to another warm‐up. The sprint test was performed as an interval start with subjects in random order while the long‐distance test was performed as mass start with up to 10 participants. Time was measured manually using a stopwatch and rounded to the nearest tenth of a second for the sprint test and to the nearest second for the long‐distance test. The subjects received verbal encouragement during both tests.