The guys from “Hannes Hawaii Tours” made their own, somewhat Kienle-centered live-feed for the race in Frankfurt today.
In the process they posted text updates, pictures and most notably cool graphs of the gaps between the top athletes. These graphs include all the splits, so you see the developments. When two lines cross, there was a pass, when somebody trends away from the leader-baseline, they slow down. The slope of the lines gives you an idea of how soon one athlete could catch another.
Here’s a sample (source: Hannes Hawaii-Tours)
The page with lot’s of these is here: http://www.hannes-hawaii-tours.de/...m-ironman-frankfurt/
The one point of critique is that the x-axis is not to scale (it seems). I would use either the time (of the leader) at the split, or the race distance with the bike scaled down by a factor of say… 4 or 5…
I vote for the guys at the WTC to include this in their athlete tracker. Could be coded into some sort of applet…
