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		<title>Pacing Strategy for a 40km TT with Headwind &amp; Tailwind Using &#8220;Normalized Power&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/06/05/pacing-strategy-wind-normalized-power/</link>
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		<title>Time Trial Pacing Strategy for a 40km TT with Headwind &amp; Tailwind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A classic scenario for time trial pacing strategies is to consider how to ride a race course that has a headwind for the first half followed by an equal tailwind for the second half of the course. This is a useful scenario to analyze to become better at pacing cycling time trials because it often occurs for out and back race courses. By using Optimal Cycling, we can systematically analyze the difference between riding such scenarios using a steady pacing strategy compared to the optimized strategy that the program solves ...]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/05/30/pacing-strategy-headwind/</link>
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		<title>[Additional Plots] Time Trial Pacing Strategy for a 40km TT with Headwind &amp; Tailwind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a page containing additional plots for the article Time Trial Pacing Strategy for a 40km TT with Headwind &#38; Tailwind. It contains the optimized power plots for a racer that outputs 300 watts and 350 watts.
Optimized power output plots for a rider at 300 watts, plotted by position:
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Optimized power output plots for a rider at 300 watts, plotted by time:
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Optimized power output plots for a rider at 350 watts, plotted by position:
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Optimized power output plots for a rider at 350 watts, plotted by time:
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		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/05/30/additional-plots-pacing-strategy-headwind/</link>
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		<title>Optimal Cycling 0.9.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An update has been released for Optimal Cycling to address compatibility issues with the OpenCL syntax.]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/05/17/optimal-cycling-0-9-1-released/</link>
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		<title>[UPDATED] NotScripts v1.1.0 for Opera Submitted for Approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have submitted NotScripts v1.1.0 today to the Opera Extension moderators that supports Opera 11.10. It should be out for download in a couple of days. There was a syntax change to postMessage in the Extensions API. I have also fixed the issue where NotScripts would list scripts from multiple sites if there were iFrames so NotScripts now works properly (it was caused by a workaround to a bug in the Extensions API of previous versions of Opera).]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/04/12/notscripts-v1-1-0-for-opera-submitted-for-approval/</link>
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		<title>Analysis of Gustav Larsson&#8217;s Pacing Strategy at the Tour of California 2009 Prologue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I did a solely theoretical analysis of the optimal pacing strategy for a hypothetical rider at the Tour of Qatar 2011 Prologue. In this post, I will do a more complex time trial analysis that compares real world power meter data to the optimized power calculated by Optimal Cycling V0.9.0. It will show the usefulness and power of Optimal Cycling in helping to increase performance, such as the ability to properly account for acceleration in our pacing model.
We will be using the power meter data for ...]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/02/02/gustav-larsson-pacing-toc-2009-prologue/</link>
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		<title>Time Trial Pacing Strategy for the Tour of Qatar 2011, Stage 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Tour of Qatar coming up on February 6-11, 2011, I think this is a good opportunity to try and see what an optimal time trial pacing strategy would be for the Stage 1 - 2km prologue. We are going to use the recently released Optimal Cycling V0.9.0 program for this exercise.]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/01/30/time-trial-pacing-qatar-2011-stage-1/</link>
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		<title>File Format Documentation for Optimal Cycling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted up detailed documentation for the file format Optimal Cycling uses for power pacing simulation. I recommend to read it for anyone trying to create their own power pacing simulations to get an overview of the file format and the details of what is needed.]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/01/27/file-format-documentation-for-optimal-cycling/</link>
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		<title>Getting Started &amp; How CCAP Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For users interested in getting started with calculating the optimal power pacing for time trial type events using Optimal Cycling, I have written a step by step tutorial to help you install the program and run your first example simulation. Also, I have now posted a page describing the CCAP power metric that is the primary constraint used in Optimal Cycling to solve for the optimal power pacing

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		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/01/23/getting-started-how-ccap-works/</link>
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		<title>Released! Power Pacing with Optimal Cycling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Optimal Cycling Project is a new &#038; open source software program that provides the most sophisticated power pacing optimization for cyclists in races. It takes in the course profile of a race, the critical power curve of the cyclist, along with many other environment conditions and is able to consistently and efficiently generate the optimal power output of a cyclist.

The Optimal Cycling Project enables detail oriented athletes, coaches, and researchers to understand and help verify how to pace using power in a consistent and systematic way. ]]></description>
		<link>http://optimalcycling.com/2011/01/17/released-power-pacing/</link>
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