A Portrait of Pacing Profile of Cross-Country Skiers in the Vasaloppet 2004-2017 The aim of this study was to influence the performance group according to the competition time (10 groups; <3 h, 3-4h, etc. up to> 12 h) to the pacing in women (n = 19,465) and men (n = 164'454) in’ Vasaloppet ‘from 2004 to 2017 to examine. The speed in the fastest and slowest split was as a percentage of average race speed and the tempo as differential (%) defined between the fastest and slowest split. Women had an area in pacing as men (44.0 ± 10.6% compared to 41.1 ± 12.5%). For women and men, a nearly perfect relationship between the power group and the pacing was observed. In women, a large main effect was observed on pacing, with the smaller area in the group <4 h (22.8 ± 3.3%) and the largest in the group of 10-11 hours (49.2 ± 9.9%) was observed. For men, the corresponding values were 21.6 ± 2.2% (group <3 h) and 51.6 ± 11.2% (group 10-11 h).
Based on these findings, the conclusion was concluded that fast cross-country skiers had a relatively uniform pacing and were less uniform with decreasing performance. The whole work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30096721/