Hey everyone, I've been away from ST for a while!...have been super swamped lately (something about finishing that last degree, haha).
Anyways, Kraig: thought I would jump in here on your q's (edit: Just saw Cote replied - I know he's swamped too, so I'm thinking he quickly replied about the config repeats when he saw your question. Sounds like you're asking about the point repeats?):
What happens between the repeat points varies depending on the athlete (on some occasions, we just do single point sweeps and just run more repeat configs throughout the session). Generally, we tell the athlete that they can relax, take a drink, move if necessary, etc... after the first point. Once we see they've settled back into position, we'll take the second point. If we are being very careful about something (say helmet position R&D), we'll have the athlete sit up or get off the bike and reassume the position for pt 2. With some athletes that are super dialed with their positions, and if we have a history of testing the athlete (so we have a good idea of how repeatable their position is), we'll knock through the 2 points with only a couple of seconds between - this was the case with Jordan. So really, it's just an extended time record more than a true repeat.
For the CxA reporting, Jordan's a special case. Since he's super techie, we just offered to give him a copy and paste subset of the raw data dump so the correction has not yet been applied. For normal full athlete/team reports or obviously with course simulations that I run, I'll apply a beta angle correction in those cases.
Chris Yu
Applied Technology
Specialized Bicycle Components
@chrisyuinc
Anyways, Kraig: thought I would jump in here on your q's (edit: Just saw Cote replied - I know he's swamped too, so I'm thinking he quickly replied about the config repeats when he saw your question. Sounds like you're asking about the point repeats?):
What happens between the repeat points varies depending on the athlete (on some occasions, we just do single point sweeps and just run more repeat configs throughout the session). Generally, we tell the athlete that they can relax, take a drink, move if necessary, etc... after the first point. Once we see they've settled back into position, we'll take the second point. If we are being very careful about something (say helmet position R&D), we'll have the athlete sit up or get off the bike and reassume the position for pt 2. With some athletes that are super dialed with their positions, and if we have a history of testing the athlete (so we have a good idea of how repeatable their position is), we'll knock through the 2 points with only a couple of seconds between - this was the case with Jordan. So really, it's just an extended time record more than a true repeat.
For the CxA reporting, Jordan's a special case. Since he's super techie, we just offered to give him a copy and paste subset of the raw data dump so the correction has not yet been applied. For normal full athlete/team reports or obviously with course simulations that I run, I'll apply a beta angle correction in those cases.
Chris Yu
Applied Technology
Specialized Bicycle Components
@chrisyuinc