2nd at 70.3 Switzerland, ahead of Spirig. I imagine she does not have a full triathlon training workload. I love watching her bike race, she truly dances up the hills.
Did you see Emma’s 1:17 half marathon split!!!
…I just read that she is now “Dr. Emma Pooley” with a PhD in Engineering as of Dec 2013, has a 2:44 marathon to her credit not to mention all her road cycling accolades. Talk about superwoman!
ohhh that is pretty rad
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She’s a pretty amazing athlete. I think her overall time was 4:12ish. I forget now.
30 min swim, 2:19 bike, 1:17 run! That run should scare a lot of people too!
Agreed, run time was the fastest women’s split! Other than the swim truly world class splits. She lost about a minute and a half to the winner in the transitions too.
Sort of interesting that she had the fastest run split, but got outbiked.
Sort of interesting that she had the fastest run split, but got outbiked.
She weighs 48 kilos so massive advantage on the run. She’s already a 2:44 marathoner. Keep in mind that she’s just off defending her PhD. I’ll take a wild guess and assume that she cut back on bike time during this academic period and kept her fitness up running which was her first sport when at Cambridge U and in High School.
Nice article here:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cycling/27041315
I can see here doing really well at races like Alpe d’Huez, or IM France. At 48 kilos (barely 105 lbs), flatter courses like Kona (if she ever wants to) might be a disadvantage. She already won Swissman, right?
30 min swim, 2:19 bike, 1:17 run! That run should scare a lot of people too!
With “only” a 2:44 marathon too. She must have just “jogged” that marathon or didn’t bother really training for it.
These shorter gals with excellent run economy should make folks completely rethink what a distance “runner” looks like in terms of ideal build. Especially in triathlon. Although Gwen reminds us that a big engine from being tall really helps at the 10k distance.
I’m being somewhat serious. We sometimes dismiss shorter girls as only being good for gymnastics or maybe OK distance runners if they work really hard. But some are real powerhouses, despite their height, even on the bike. Rinny posted the 2nd faster bike split at Alcatraz for women I think as well.
30 min swim, 2:19 bike, 1:17 run! That run should scare a lot of people too!
With “only” a 2:44 marathon too. She must have just “jogged” that marathon or didn’t bother really training for it.
These shorter gals with excellent run economy should make folks completely rethink what a distance “runner” looks like in terms of ideal build. Especially in triathlon. Although Gwen reminds us that a big engine from being tall really helps at the 10k distance.
I’m being somewhat serious. We sometimes dismiss shorter girls as only being good for gymnastics or maybe OK distance runners if they work really hard. But some are real powerhouses, despite their height, even on the bike. Rinny posted the 2nd faster bike split at Alcatraz for women I think as well.
Part of the problem is that most of the current tri course don’t favour women with low top line watts and low body weight. In that vein, if I recall the Olympic ITT venue around the Great Wall at Badling was crazy hilly and Emma got her Beijing silver medal there. Harder to do at London where the ITT circuit did not favour an athlete of small stature with low top line watts.
Mirinda does great on fairly hilly courses or moderately rolling courses where it can get really hot on the run and as a small runner she does not generate a ton of heat. So she’s never going to feel that hot at Kona (neither would Emma). Put Mirinda in Melbourne which is flat and cool and she won’t do as well. Would love to see what Emma could crank out at IM France with all the climbing and a “meltdown hot” run. The small girls are generally going to do much better on courses with a lot of vertical with less wind where the run is hot. That’s their ticket. Unfortunately, there are not a ton of courses like that because it is harder for WTC to make money selling out those events. People want fast finish times with not a lot of climbing and cool temps, so you get more courses where athletes the size of Caroline Steffen can shine.