Empirical analysis of pacing in road cycling
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Title
MMSports 2019 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, co-located with MM 2019
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
School
School of Medical and Health Sciences
RAS ID
31021
Abstract
The pacing profile adopted throughout a competitive time trial may be decisive in the overall outcomes of the event. Riders distribute their energy resources based on a range of factors including prior experience, perception of effort, knowledge of distance to cover and potential motivation. Some athletes and professional cycling teams may also quantify individual pacing strategies derived from computational scientific methods. In this work we collect and analyze data of self-selected individual pacing profiles from approximately 12,000 competitive riders on a well-known hill climbing road segment in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. We found that riders chose from a variety of very different pacing profiles, including some opposing profiles. For the classification of pacing this paper describes the pipeline of collection GPS-based and time stamped performance data, data filtering, augmentation of road gradient and power values, and the classification procedure.
DOI
10.1145/3347318.3355522
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Comments
Saupe, D., Artiga Gonzalez, A., Burger, R., & Abbiss, C. (2019). Empirical analysis of pacing in road cycling. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (pp. 74-81). Available here