chrisb12 wrote:
Yes accelerometers. I asked Emma (we coach her and she's currently the Aussie travelling physio). Apparently they have an intern / sport scientist travelling with them who is doing a paper on the dynamics of the team relay, it'll be published later this year.
Thanks Steve,
That's really interesting. I'd have never guessed that the tape was securing accelerometers to them. My wife was trying to figure out what the KT tape was supposed to help with while I at first thought they had matching road rash covered up.[/quote]
I don't follow how a study of the dynamics of a triathlon relay would be very informative. I mean, if we interpret "dynamics" literally it means changes in speed, right??? Well, the changes in speed from the swim to the bike to the run are pretty huge but that is already very well known. So how is this study going to "increase our knowledge"???[/quote]
Pretty sure they show a lot more than that, stroke rate and cadence at the least, and for every moment of the race, from dive in until they get turned off at end. When looked at beside the race times by the minute could be some very interesting info actually.[/quote]
OK, I can see now that this could yield some interesting data, thanks for the explain.
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