2:45-2:50 depending on conditions

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Stein may be the man to take it all - surely he'll have fastest bike split.

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rinny over 15min behind. She needs ryf to blow up.

Word. Rinny is 15min back.

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It's amazing to see the top 20 settling, rising, falling, and shifting heading into T2 - some letting off, some gunning it in - all will be revealed once the bikes are racked. Shaping up to a be a great run!

To be fair he raced Ironman Bolton this year and smashed it so is on a lot of Uk fans radar now so some will be cheering him on.

Hope he has the legs to run, looking at his splits he is absolutley smashing the bike course. Faster than Joe Skipper, anyone know if Joe Skipper had a mechanical or penalty? Looked like he was making good progress and then blew.

Ryf 15 min up on rinny, 11 mins on jackson. Still 25mi to ride. Is anyone even going to threaten ryf?

Rinny will have to run her best run ever just to have a chance at a podium, winning will need something to happen to others too..Funny how Ryf put so much time into her chaser, right about the time all those frontal close ups were being taken.. (-;

Yeah. Not looking goof for Rinny at all... I'll be surprised if she's even on the podium... hope so though.

    1 5:08:32 Boris Stein 22:17 22.7
2 5:08:33 0:02 Sebastian Kienle 22:27 22.5
3 5:08:35 0:03 Andi Boecherer 22:10 22.8
4 5:08:37 0:05 Jan Frodeno 22:26 22.5
5 5:08:39 0:07 Luke McKenzie 22:26 22.5
6 5:08:40 0:09 Ben Hoffman 22:24 22.6
7 5:08:42 0:10 Tim O'Donnell 22:00 23.0
8 5:11:02 2:30 Eneko Llanos 23:39 21.4
9 5:11:53 3:21 Michael Weiss 23:26 21.6
10 5:12:56 4:24 Marko Albert 23:05 21.9
11 5:12:58 4:26 Terenzo Bozzone 23:04 21.9
12 5:13:49 5:17 Igor Amorelli 24:45 20.4
13 5:14:05 5:34 Andy Potts 25:05 20.2
14 5:14:17 5:45 Lionel Sanders 23:44 21.3

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I just saw just under 80k people watching online feed right now. Interesting

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

How far down was RInny in 2014 when she ran Ryf down? I wrote her off that year...but she is just amazing on the run. Still, I thought that she would have a better bike this year.

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15 mins is an eternity. Barring a disaster Ryf will win.

monty has given the mark allen riddle a try. i don't know if he's got it all figured out.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

I was thinking all along that Weiss must have a big pay offer to be first off the bike. Oh well, not today.

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What wattage do you guys estimate that Kienle rode today?

keinly bike position is so hard... u can tell base on the last images that his neck is sore

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

 
No, I thought this one
https://ironstats.org/public/2016-10-08-worldchampionship-iron-MPRO-live.html

 

I'd be curious to know if German federation has shifted from ITU focus to full support of these LC top athletes who are winning and podiuming at world champ events. Can't say that for Germans ITU right now.

ETA: sorry auto correct from phone.

How they announced the Olympic squad was one of most disappointing things I've seen at elite level.

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

Rinny's overcome 14min the past right? She's 15min down on Ryf at mile 87!!! This gap will be even bigger. She'll likely have the 5th fastest run of the whole race but it'll be a tall order to make this up.

Ian

Keinle is leading but looks like he's putting a huge effort on those last miles. Will see how his legs hold up. This could be a remake of the Ironwar, just Keinle vs Frodeno this time

German bike dominance.....

Deck is stacked....maybe they pushed themselves too hard.

awesome. that's Stein, leading by nothing, nothing, nothing, etc

could be fun. some gamers there. kienle and frodo may be the greats, but McK and Hoff and OD are gamers

If I have my math right is Kienle going to break Stadler's course record (4:18ish)

Edit: was looking at the women's race clock....no record

ooohhh shittt

they all look pretty good!

EPIC RUN about to happen!

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev