Hello David

Congratulations for great job done with Lionel, culminating (before PTO Championship) with the Canadian Hour Record !

Apparently Lionel said before the attempt 50km/h was "costing" 380w
Then apparently said the record (51.3 km/h) was done around 380w

Can you clarify this ?

In both cases it is good improvement on CdA (between 0,2 and 0,22), most of them being convertible to Tri.
Seems now he is in the same ballpark as Cam Wurf (for similar height / weight), with last figure published around 0.214

Actually in the Breakfast with Bob he said 390w for the hour (estimated on his internal sense based on the trial runs we did)

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David T-D
http://www.tilburydavis.com

Lionel talks about this in the linked video :-)

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David T-D
http://www.tilburydavis.com

If they are not going to enforce the 20 meter draft rule then from a coverage perspective a pack ride culminating in NOTHING is a really bad marketing angle. In that case they should make the bike meaningful and make it swim-run-bike, or run-swim-bike. If drafting is allowed, then put the bike at the end after everything blows apart on the run. Then you have a group of singles and doubles starting the bike with the potential for packs to form from the back and try to catch the leaders. Then this becomes like every breakaway in pro cycling with a lot of super interesting dynamics in terms of alliances and tactics, and either a few riders from a breakaway win and have two man sprint, or you get a massive peloton and it boils down to a mass sprint finish. Then all legs become meaningful.

If PTO does do any draft legal racing I would suggest that format. It would be awesome on any formula 1 or Nascar track. . I always felt that ITU racing should have gone that route when they made it draft legal

50 ish of the fastest athletes around a 2.5 mile loop means significant drafting enforcement issues.

Love the idea of this race and will be watching every second but this dynamic will be a set up for strong swimmers to get away as well as pack riding galore.

Do we know if PTO is going to attempt a decent online/streaming show for this? Last year's iteration 1 was amateurish with PTO commentators running around streaming from their iPhones as best they could.


I sure hope so.

Both the PTO and Challenge have a really BIG opportunity here - No other Pro League sports going on. World Tour Cycling Season over. No other triathlons of note going on. And the most impressive and interesting Race Field in this whole unusual year of triathlon racing for the biggest triathlon prize purse ever!

Doing a good production of something like this takes more work than people imagine*. But, you need to zero in on some key things, and do them REALLY well!

*I've been involved now in the commentary of many top level cycling, running, track & field and triathlon productions.

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Those are interesting lists, but it gives no info on who is actually coming. I have heard Daniella is not. I am also skeptical on the “wild cards” as it was widely reported that Morgan Pearson was offered (and accepted) a spot, but he is not on the list ???





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Where can we see the pro start list?

Automatic Qualifiers:

https://protriathletes.org/pto-2020-championship-automatic-qualifiers/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Big+Just+Got+BIGGER%21&utm_campaign=201109_pto-championship_2020_lead-generation_fb-lead-form-leads_03


Wildcard Selections: (Scroll to the bottom, there are four tranches of Wild Card selections, the links are at the bottom)


https://protriathletes.org/pto-2020-championship-final-wildcard-announcement/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Big+Just+Got+BIGGER%21&utm_campaign=201109_pto-championship_2020_lead-generation_fb-lead-form-leads_03[/quote]

It will likely be stagger rule, as it's a USAT event. This was the case the last two iterations of the Daytona race.

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