You always come back to this 'size' thing with men and women on the bike leg of the triathlon. How big is Alberto Contador? He is a pretty handy time trialist. How big are the best female time trialists in the world? I'm sure they are not much bigger, if they are bigger at all, than any strong female cyclists in a triathlon. Alistair Brownlee is hardly big yet he seems to be able to deliver some pretty big watts in his ITU races.

Is Badmann much bigger than Rinny?

She can't magically "learn" something. She just physically cannot produce more watts on the bike. It's like asking a linebacker to learn how to do the balance beam in the olympics gymnastic competition. At some point you can't defy your body's dimensions. As I said, she might be able to tweak out some aero gains, but is there a cost to her run? All the pro women up to now who are that small who biked faster ran slower. No one has run as fast as Rinny while riding like PNF or Badmann out of a frame as small as those girls. There is no magic learning to be done here. Rinny's bike was in a respectable range of other pro women. Ryf is out of this world as Chrissie was. Both were much bigger athletes.

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She can't magically "learn" something. She just physically cannot produce more watts on the bike. It's like asking a linebacker to learn how to do the balance beam in the olympics gymnastic competition. At some point you can't defy your body's dimensions. As I said, she might be able to tweak out some aero gains, but is there a cost to her run? All the pro women up to now who are that small who biked faster ran slower. No one has run as fast as Rinny while riding like PNF or Badmann out of a frame as small as those girls. There is no magic learning to be done here. Rinny's bike was in a respectable range of other pro women. Ryf is out of this world as Chrissie was. Both were much bigger athletes.

can Lange make it to the podium
I'd bed 'yes'

wow-very impressive running this late in the race

Look at Lange, holy crap!

No, I say they same thing every year after watching the leaders for hours while all the action is going on behind them. I keep hoping someone from Ironman will read my post and think.... Hey, all the action is behind the leaders, maybe we should drop the cameras back.

They must have read the post. The camera finally found Patrick Lange.

I can totally respect that. But to get to the top, you've got to make changes somewhere.
Just sayin'

Look at Lange, holy crap!

That Lange pass tho

change something Rinny.

It looked horrible, i thought he was going to come off.

Looks like Lange can grab 3rd



TOP 10 Pro Men - Thru Run Split 9 - Hina Lani inbound - 21.56 mi
1 7:34:52 Jan Frodeno
2 7:39:08 4:16 Sebastian Kienle
3 7:42:38 7:46 Ben Hoffman
4 7:42:58 8:06 Andi Boecherer
5 7:43:19 8:28 Patrick Lange
6 7:43:25 8:33 Tim O'Donnell

So will Lange crack the 2:39 mark today?

Uh oh, ITB issues with Lange?