No cardiac damage after endurance exercise in cardiologists cycling to the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Barcelona.

Aims: There are variable results reported for athletes and potential cardiac damage during exercise. In 2009 a group of cardiologists went by bicycle from the Netherlands to the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Barcelona and collected functional and biochemical parameters during this trip in order to evaluate whether cardiac damage was observed in a group of moderately trained amateur cyclists.

Methods And Results: All of the 20 amateur cyclists (17 men) completed the 1580 km in eight days with an average speed of 27.