As a previous regular on slowtwitch I know that several people have come here looking for data for their PhD. In most cases these seem to get a fair amount of blowback from the audience so I hope you'll be patient in this case.
I study evolutionary tradeoffs in animal systems, primarily working on reptiles and frogs. Most recently I've started asking how frogs can be adapted to two totally different environments (aquatic and terrestrial, swimming and jumping). The problem for natural selection of course, is that any given frog should be constrained by having only one set of genes to make a really good swimmer and a really good jumper.
It just occurred to me that triathletes face a similar tradeoff. :)
So I'm curious to compare patterns in the animal systems I've studied for the past 16 years with the patters in triathletes (and maybe eventually decathletes, pentathletes, etc...). SO for now, I'm wondering if folks out there would share information with me on their swim, bike, run and finish times in triathlons (including the distance of the race itself), along with your height, weight, leg length, arm length, hand and foot lengths (write to tip of middle finger, heel to tip of big toe), sex, age, and years of racing experience. If you'd be interested in participating you can simply reply yes as I'm simply trying to gauge what kind of response I could expect.
alternatively if anyone knows of a place where such data on triathletes (professional or otherwise) are already available, I'd love to mine that data base.
thanks in advance for your input.
cheers
Ryan
I study evolutionary tradeoffs in animal systems, primarily working on reptiles and frogs. Most recently I've started asking how frogs can be adapted to two totally different environments (aquatic and terrestrial, swimming and jumping). The problem for natural selection of course, is that any given frog should be constrained by having only one set of genes to make a really good swimmer and a really good jumper.
It just occurred to me that triathletes face a similar tradeoff. :)
So I'm curious to compare patterns in the animal systems I've studied for the past 16 years with the patters in triathletes (and maybe eventually decathletes, pentathletes, etc...). SO for now, I'm wondering if folks out there would share information with me on their swim, bike, run and finish times in triathlons (including the distance of the race itself), along with your height, weight, leg length, arm length, hand and foot lengths (write to tip of middle finger, heel to tip of big toe), sex, age, and years of racing experience. If you'd be interested in participating you can simply reply yes as I'm simply trying to gauge what kind of response I could expect.
alternatively if anyone knows of a place where such data on triathletes (professional or otherwise) are already available, I'd love to mine that data base.
thanks in advance for your input.
cheers
Ryan