Engner66 wrote:
Would have never guessed that Duffy is a stronger cyclist than Charles. Kind of ironic, that it if wasn't a draft legal bike, the long course athlete would have been dropped by the short course cyclist. On the other hand, if it wasn't for swim draft maybe the long course swimmer would have opened a gap to the short course swimmers.
of course this isnt to ironic its just a different game. and i guess you remember the worlds in nice where charles was picked up relatively early by the group behind her.
watts per kilo and being good at exhalerations and trained pack cyclist vs high watt athlete not trained on group rides and not the best in climbing in long course.
i think she is doing very well.