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Ironmanlive...please, you are killing me with your "Estimated Finish Time" column. It is showing Raelert at 8:08 estimated finish time and Kienle at 8:29. Who coded this?

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5:46? What happened to Starky? More bad Perform?

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I believe Steffen was about 5:20 back of Ryf at the start of the run.

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Maybe if we all bought an IM Trucker hat they would have enough funds to buy another camera.

Ok... I guess the race tracker must have been messed up. It was showing me that he was averaging under 5:5X/mi at mile 10. That must be wrong...

Yes, still think he went out too fast. I do want him to win, but objectively, he went out at 2:36 IM marathon pace. He would have been fine heading out at 2:45 pace and ending up at 2:53....2:36 just digs a bit of a lactate hole. I said the same think about Andreas Ralaert in 2011 when he started chasing Crowie at 5:51 mile pace and he never did catch up and Pete Jacobs passed him. You can look at the Alii drive run paces and know who will run well in the energy lab...look at FVL. He as not the fastest on Alii, but he's going good in the energy lab, and up to 2nd place.

Well and he was a pretty decent age group swimmer.

Yeah, I think you can only compare the estimated finishing times of those that have the same distance covered for the calculation.

According to Jesse Thomas' twitter, Raelert rested at an aid station for "3ish" minutes. //

Figured that must have been what happened, so pluck that lobster out of the pot..

Crap That is disappointing. That would have been huge for such a small country to get the win. I was waiting to see the celebrations in the streets of Mbabane. Bet the King would have even been out there cheering.

LOL!

At this point, I think the cameraman covering the mens leader dropped out. Seems like 100% Ryf for the last 15mins.

Yea, and that's less than 20s/mi faster than what Kienle was doing to that point. With an 11+ minute lead on Raelert...

does everyone else think the leader board sucks? why this format? beyond the "est finish", all i want is the standings in a PGA Tour style.

leader
next guy +30
next guy +60

etc

too much?

Maybe. But if he holds on for the win does it really matter? I say no.

Ha. I get that one.

It is really bad. I can't make sense of where things are at. It seems they did alot of new things....for instance, did anymore try and navigate through the Breakfast with Bob video interviews? Brutal, and the audio was out of sync. Last year was much much better.

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Switzerland is pretty small too.

has timing stopped updating? Kienles last split was 13 mile mark

Damn, Frodo into 5th, looks like he's gunning for the podium at this point. Hope the Hoff can hold on.

Agree, I say no, and I want him to hold on to the win badly. of the top guys who paid their dues in Kona, he's one who has...the 2012 race with the flat really slipped away. I just hope whatever slowdown he has is enough. As I said, the guy ran 2:49 in Frankfurt on a day just as hot as Kona (from what I heard) and he still ran 1:17 in Tremblant so low 2:50's is easily in his range.

Nice one!

You mean I wasted all my time and money driving all over the big island to find a Swaziland flag to give her at the finish?

4th now