The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held this Thursday, October 3rd, at 1 pm via Zoom/GP-Y801. This week we will have a presentation by Mackenzie Parker along with a discussion.
Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/82192967394?pwd=y1etbRqA2aiBik9oRZqbM3oonpzC2H.1
Meeting ID: 821 9296 7394
Passcode: 182155
Mackenzie’s Talk
Title: Swimming race pace profiling, prediction, and simulation
Abstract: Pacing strategies are characterised by the effective distribution of energy resources during exercise, ensuring that performance does not deteriorate due to fatigue. In the context of competitive swimming, this is the completion of a race. In elite competition, a swimmer’s race plan determines the pacing profile they must adopt and establishes training standards and targeted skill and stroke development. The development of a race plan requires informed discussion between coaches and performance support staff to provide the athlete with a feasible and competitive process to follow. This plan should capitalise on the athlete’s strengths and improve performance through physiological, technical, and tactical adjustments. There is a significant gap in deriving personalised pacing profiles from performance data, especially with respect to predictive or simulation-capable models that explicitly capture the uncertainty in swimming. An individual’s pacing profile could combine the features of multiple pacing profiles and may consciously be altered both between and within competitions. This research aims to model pacing from individual athletes, investigating variability, uncertainty, and heterogeneity of athlete pacing profiles with respect to different race distances and temporal autocorrelation. While research is ongoing, this presentation will describe the current approaches to solving this problem, as well as the future steps and their appeal and limitations.
See you there! 😊
Abi & Jamintha
BRAG Co-Chairs