The tracker is bad. Can’t believe I can’t see individual splits for bike and run.
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Never seen any of the race, but interesting set of results, im a bit gutted for Skipper, can’t remember the last time he had a podium.
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IM NZ, but agree with your point - he’s really struggled to put it together on race day consistently since whatever medical episode a few years ago
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Really enjoy Laidow racing and also his quirk in the press.
I get how it will upset some but for me it’s enjoyable.
Most importantly though… wonder who’s getting abuse from the race ranger data third down looked suspicious on the tracker but didn’t see any visuals from the bike as I was training in a strange turn of events.
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What was the quirk in the press? Or just talking about his sorta outspoken personality.
Yeah personality.
I didn’t have SL going 7:30 after all the health/life/training issues he had over the winter/spring post Kona, I think he only started doing consistent training April-now. If that was a controlled effort, good lord the WC’s are going to be fun to watch this year. The level of LC racing has just gotten so good seemingly the past few years.
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There’s been a step change in training that’s really making it. It’s great to see and there’s plenty personalities that make it actually watchable.
Scott and Allen aren’t saying that they’re running slow anymore.
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Speaking of Dave Scott, any updates on his general health?
Who knows, if any athlete is.
I’ve had a quick look through the first half of the bike on the tracker and Stratmann leads the group nearly (3/4s) the time so doubt he’ll be close to the naughty step.
It would be unrealistic I would think for a group of 8-9 (or more in the future at say Kona), to think they are going to never creep into the draft zone unintentional while riding in the legal peloton, for nearly 4 hours. We may start to see patterns of who is constantly sitting in the group (with unintended consequence of time in cummalative RR data with those various unintended creps into the draft zone and then quickly correcting by backing out) and who is generally always at the front or keeping their nose and thus RR cleaner*.
It would be my guess that they’ll eventually get to the point of implementing this data into an “catch all” type of penalty, even if they have some allowance. This data will almost bee too good and valuable to just think it’ll stay sorta only as “targeting” athletes. I think it’ll be used for actual penalty enforcement, somehow someway in the future (next 2-3 years when everyone continues to get used to it…and yes I’m talking PRO racing only).
Especially if they make the data public, there is going to be likely pressure to use it as effectively as possible imo.
Laidlow’s PTN take: thought he was leading from 40km on the bike till 12km on the run. Then saw Schomburg ahead on course, and the centime dropped.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLxsWbpPZnu/
Remind again, SL to make Nice still has to “validate” at a IM race or is he in if he wants to race it?
Validation required (5 previous exemption). Iden, Blummenfelt have validated and Frodeno has retired.
Lange gets in AQ (same as Philipp does).
List Q’d =
and scroll down.
Laidlow’s options are: IMLP, IMUK or IM Copenhagen (4 weeks before Nice).
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Consider he seems to be on the piss tonight.
Maybe no Laidlow in Nice…
Which would be a shame but I’m from an armchair coach and fan perspective okay with it.
Sam said he’ll be in Leeds
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Do we think he’ll race it competitively, or will this be another chip-bag fiasco?
3 “competitive” IM’s from now til Nice would be a big reach if you then add in SL’s training issues from Kona to roughly March. He said he didn’t start get “consistent” training until April. He’s young, no point in trying to be a hero with every race.
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