this morning i was listening to a podcast with Dede Griesbauer. She was saying that she and Cameron Brown had similar race history (2IM, 2 halfs), similar KPR (~4500) but he was almost guaranteed a spot for Kona, yet she would have to do another and how unfair this was

I was intrigued so when I got home I looked at their races. Cameron had to beat the likes of Terenzo, Tim Reed, Van Berkel, Crowie, Dylan McNeice. I did not recognize one name for the people Dede raced. I guess I know more of the male names, but I struggle to see those 4500 points being the same difficulty to achieve. Are male and female KPRs really equal ?

I looked at IMMT last year, NA champs, high point race. 17 men, 7 women. This is the race guys like Raelert used to scrape through to Kona and the women's field was not very deep, yet only 7 women showed up.