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Understanding the sport-specific immune response elicited during both training and competition is imperative to maximise athlete health and performance. Despite a growing population of professional enduro mountain bike athletes, little is known about the recovery of the immune system following enduro racing events. Methods: Nine international level elite enduro mountain bike athletes (age 24.3 ± 2.4 years, height 178.5 ± 8.7 cm, mass 76.5 ± 12.5 kg) completed a laboratory-based maximal exercise test (LAB) on a cycle ergometer and competed in an international mountain bike enduro race event (RACE). Blood samples were taken before, immediately after, and 1 h after LAB and before, 1 h after, and 17 h after RACE. Leukocyte subsets were enumerated using seven-colour flow cytometry. Lucia’s training impulse (LuTRIMP) and vibration exposure (VIB) were quantified during RACE. Results: Seven participants were included in the final analyses. There was a significant ( p  < 0.05) increase in neutrophil count alongside a reduction of cytotoxic lymphocyte cell subsets of both the innate (CD3 − /CD56 +  NK-cells and CD3 − /CD56 dim  NK-cells) and adaptive (CD8 + /CD62L − /CD45RA −  T-cells and CD8 + /CD27 + /CD28 −  T-cells) components of the immune system one hour after RACE. All cell counts returned to baseline values 17 h afterwards ( p  > 0.05). Cell subset redistribution from pre- to post-one-hour time points (%Δpre-post1h) in cell subsets with potent effector functions (Neutrophils, CD3 − /CD56 +  NK-cells, CD8 + /CD62L − /CD45RA −  T-cells, CD8 + /CD27 + /CD28 −  T-cells, and CD3 − /CD56 dim /CD57 −  NK-cells) was significantly greater at RACE than LAB ( p  < 0.05). VIB was shown to be a superior predictor of %Δpre-post1h CD4 +  T-cells, CD4 +  early T-cells, CD4 +  naïve T-cells, and NK cells as compared with LuTRIMP on its own (Δ R  2  = 0.63 − 0.89,  p  < 0.05). Conclusions: The race event offers a greater challenge to the immune system than LAB, and potentially, whole body vibration is a key component of training load measurement in mountain bike applications.

Immune Response of Elite Enduro Racers to Laboratory and Racing Environments: The Influence of Training Impulse and Vibration