salmonsteve wrote:
B_Doughtie wrote:
Yes he has work to do, but I dont think it's the front pack you aim for with this athlete. You figure out what it takes to get to the tail end of the chase pact that for the *majority* of races bridges up to the front group. That's what you look for with an athlete of this speed. Once you make it there then you work towards the front pack. Now of course EVERYONE wants to be a front pack swimmer, but reality is some just wont ever make it. Richard Murray has never made it as an front pack swimmer but has one hell of a itu career running the front pack down and/or pulling the gaps back so he can run them down. Same for mola.
So with his speed, it's less about making the front group and more about what the gap is to that front group for him to run down. That's the reality of what your looking at with this type of athlete at his age and development.
He just raced a sprint distance world cup, was around a minute down off the bike, and finished about 30 secs down, In 8th place, in a run time of 15.02