The Effect of Sex and Performance Level on Pacing in Duathlon The goal of the study was the study of the effects of sex and performance on pacing on the short (Run 1 with 10 km, bike with 50 km and Run with 2 5 km) and the long route (Run 1 with 10 km, bike with 150Km and Run 2 with 30 km) at the Powerman World Cup ‘Powerman Zofingen’. All finishers (n = 6671; women, n = 1037; Men, n = 5634), which were either in the short or long-distance version of ‘Powerman Zofingen’ from 2003 to 2017, were used for the time completed in each discipline (RUN 1, Bike and Run 2) and Change Zone (Tran) from Run 1 to Bike (Tran 1) and Bike to Run 2 (Tran 2). The athletes were divided into quartile (Q) groups (Q 1, Q 2, Q 3 and Q 4), where Q 1 was the fastest and Q 4 slowest. On the short corner of both sexes, a middle discipline / change zone × Quartile interaction over the relative time was observed, with Q 1 in Tran 1, Tran 2 and Run 2 relatively the fastest and the slowest in bike. On the long distance, both sexes were observed with a strong interaction between discipline and change zone × Quartile over the relative time where Q 1 was relatively fastest in Tran 1, Tran 2 and Run 2 and the slowest in bike.
In summary, a similar trend of the variation of the pacing according to the performance level was observed in both sexes and competition routes, with the fastest duathets at Run 2 and the two change zones the fastest and bike the slowest goods. The whole study can be found under https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/6/4/152