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Pacing Strategy for a 40km TT with Headwind & Tailwind Using “Normalized Power”

Last week I posted an article that showed the optimal power pacing strategy for a 40 km cycling time trial where there is a headwind for the first half and a tailwind for the return leg. In that article, I used CCAP as the power metric to constrain the power output for the cyclist in the time trial. In this post, we will take a second look at the optimization performed for the situation where the overall power is constrained to 250 watts and the wind speed is 5 m/s.