What is the Swiss Side Performance Platform?
The Swiss Side Performance Platform is a powerful decision-support tool for triathletes and cyclists. It uses a data-driven approach to optimize your equipment selection and pacing strategy for a specific event, helping you achieve your best possible finish time.
Who is this platform for?
The platform is designed for professional, semi-professional and ambitious triathletes and cyclists who use power meters and are serious about optimizing their performance.
How will this platform help me on race day?
It removes the uncertainty from your race plan. By providing a clear, data-backed strategy for equipment and pacing, it frees up your mental energy so you can focus on executing your race with confidence.
How does the equipment comparison work?
You can create and save multiple rider & bike setups within the platform, or compare different wheel/tyre options for one setup. You then run a simulation for a specific course to see the time difference and performance impact of each equipment choice on your overall race and on different course segments.
How does the pacing optimization work?
You provide a course file (or select an official course), a wind forecast, and your rider/bike setup. Our platform then analyses these inputs to generate an optimal pacing plan, advising you on which segments you should over-pace or under-pace to achieve the fastest finish time.
What are Events?
An event is a target race (course + date). You can link several pacing and equipment optimizations to it, so all your race-day strategies are in one place. See Events 📆.
What kind of course files can I upload?
GPX, FIT and CSV files.
How do you get the wind forecast?
The platform can automatically fetch a detailed wind forecast for your chosen course and race date and time, or you can manually input the wind data if you have a specific source.
How do I take my pacing plan to the race?
From the pacing results you can export a FIT course file with power cues for your head unit, print frame stickers, or export the targets to CSV. See Exporting your pacing plan (head unit, stickers, CSV).
What is the AI assistant?
On the results page you can open the AI assistant (bottom right) and ask questions about your pacing or equipment results. It is in beta and may provide inaccurate information. Each question uses a chat credit.
Do I need a credit card for the free trial?
No. The free trial lasts 10 days, requires no payment information and does not turn into a paid subscription automatically. To keep access, click Subscribe before the trial ends.
Can I pause/cancel my subscription?
Yes. You can cancel your subscription anytime, and your subscription will remain active until the end of your current billing cycle. We will keep your data for 12 months so you can subscribe again and continue using your data.
What are optimization credits?
Each run of a pacing or equipment optimization uses one credit. If a run fails, the credit is refunded. You can see your remaining credits on the start page under Quotas & limits. The number of credits, courses and rider setups depends on your plan; see the pricing page.
Can I use the platform for just one race?
Yes. With a single event purchase you get a pacing strategy for one official event without a subscription. See Plans, trial & credits 💳.
I can’t run the optimization, what can I do?
Make sure you have filled in all the required fields and all the steps are marked as completed (marked by a check mark). Also check that you have optimization credits left (start page → Quotas & limits).
Why can't I run a pacing optimization with many segments?
A pacing optimization can optimize at most 20 power targets (groups plus ungrouped segments). Group more segments or fix the power for some segments.
How does the platform know my aerodynamic data (CdA)?
By default, the platform estimates your CdA from your bike type and rider height. If you know your CdA from wind tunnel, velodrome or field testing, turn on Custom positions in your rider setup and enter your measured values. Together with our database of wheel options, these values allow you to answer the most critical equipment questions like 'TT vs road bike', wheel selection and pacing strategy optimization.
How accurate is the total predicted finish time?
To keep the platform user-friendly, we use standardized assumptions for variables like road surface. Because of this, your actual race time may vary by a few minutes over a long-distance triathlon ride. Think of the total time as a high-level estimate, while the real value lies in the data-driven comparison between equipment choices and pacing strategies.
How accurate are the time-saving predictions?
While absolute times can shift, the relative time-savings between setups or pacing strategies are accurate. Because the same assumptions are applied to every simulation you run, any 'systematic biases' cancel out. This allows the platform to pinpoint the exact performance advantage of one bike setup or pacing strategy over another.
In the equipment comparison, there is a power difference between the different setups although the power is set by the pacing strategy. How comes?
The power difference shown in the comparison is a virtual estimated difference that tells you how much more power you would have to put on the pedals to make up for the speed difference.