A well-commented script that tries to model the data mining process from the sports scientists is online.
Below is a quick screenshot for reading, the script can be downloaded here.

There are some steps (two main steps) for training the network:

  • Since there is not much data available for training, additional data was taken from another athlete.
  • the network is initialized once and stored in a variable,
  • the network is pre-trained: it is assumed that it can then better adapt to the actual training data,
  • the main training is performed starting from the pre-trained network,
  • this is repeated for (number of data) and cross validation is carried out.

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