Putting the Power of Data Into Motion

Welcome to the first edition of The Breakaway, bringing you cycling and data insights from the partnership between Trek-Segafredo and Splunk. As the team’s official technology software partner, Splunk is proud to help Trek-Segafredo’s world-class cycling team race to the next level. Throughout the season, Splunk will help the team’s men and women athletes, coaches, trainers and support staff uplevel their approach to the sport — and we’ll be telling that story as it happens.

The first collaboration is around nutrition. A cyclist is a machine, converting caloric fuel into the muscular action that accelerates a racing bike. On a staged race, exhausted riders must rest and refuel before the next day’s race, and how they approach nutrition tonight is critical to tomorrow’s performance. With Splunk’s help, team nutritionists and chefs will have individual athlete performance data from a day’s ride before the cyclists even make it to the dinner table — ensuring that each rider is given the right diet to prepare them not just for another grueling athletic performance, but to perform optimally for the specific course profile and team strategy the next day brings.