As an aside, the delta between Pierré and Luis was 27 minutes, so he must have been taking it real easy. //
Why do you say that? I have always used 20 minutes as the difference between men and women in a half as the "equal" accomplishment time. On great women performances it can get down to 15 minutes, in lackluster comparisons it can be 30+ minutes. I would say Luis had a super solid effort as compared to the lead woman. And if Holly was allowed to do the legit course, it would have been 6 minutes faster and down to 21 minutes, so that would have been pretty even in efforts for both men and women..
EDIT; Just looking at Holly's times, she would have likely only won by a couple minutes or so, so more like a 25 minute delta to Luis..
Why do you say that? I have always used 20 minutes as the difference between men and women in a half as the "equal" accomplishment time. On great women performances it can get down to 15 minutes, in lackluster comparisons it can be 30+ minutes. I would say Luis had a super solid effort as compared to the lead woman. And if Holly was allowed to do the legit course, it would have been 6 minutes faster and down to 21 minutes, so that would have been pretty even in efforts for both men and women..
EDIT; Just looking at Holly's times, she would have likely only won by a couple minutes or so, so more like a 25 minute delta to Luis..