Lagoon wrote:
I think she just likes to race and if Dan Lorang gave her the green light who are we to question him (and her). I don’t think she can run with the fast girls no matter how much training she does between now and Paris anyway.If the Paris Olympic Tri course even used a quarter of the bike course (425m over 40km equivalent), she could perhaps TT away from the entire field. As it stands, her best chance appears to be to bike in the Olympic tri hard enough to soften others up for the run. The RR bike course profile favours her being able to go minimally for a 2 hrs training day before things heat up for the final 2 hrs. Then she could decide on MTR being the primary event for that two day period or the next 2 hrs being her primary event (along the lines of what KNY said about being 99% for the MTR vs "100 percent"...maybe it is more like 96% vs 100%).
When does she need to commit to the road race? It seems like she has not removed herself from that option yet, so it has to be a possibliity she is wanting to take.