Looks like they’re ignoring the drafting rules early on (far too close together and LOTS of slotting in).
Pity we ain’t seeing Haug , wonder where she will show up to validate. There isn’t a lot of time left, doubt she will fly to Placid or Cairns to validate
Good list, with Pierre and Lovseth as possible disrupters in the race!!!
and guess what, coverage is a fail once again. No timing splits and commentators still butchering names.
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Even the tracker is useless. Why can’t they have more timing mats? The gap between 30 and 71k is far too big to track the race.
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71k wasn’t working either 
we have a race!
Blu is gonna go to the front quickly, but Le Corre and Main coming hot from behind!
Have to say, Rinny unable to pronounce Lisa perterer’s name after all the results she’s had, and the times she commented her, is quite unbearable.
Apart from all the other names completely butchered. Commentary as bad as always. Not sure why I keep expecting a different result.
KB pressing on now!
Brave effort by Le Corre to try to close to the leaders, but over cooked it in the first two laps and paid it back on the third, allowing Olympic medalist Dickinson to overhaul him round that last lap.
- Pierré showing her run palmares.
- Rayner riding and running above form.
- Expected (perhaps unreasonably) Meißner to run better.
- Perterer has to have Texas’ 26 miles in her legs from only 3 weeks ago.
- Bartlett running up into #5
Benign conditions here compared to freezing water (swim shortened to 750m) and pissing down in Samorin.
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Really smart run by Kristian. He knew he was in the driver’s seat the whole time and still put on a good show in the end.
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Definitely in top form, hard to bet against him at Frankfurt! Pro Series favourite now🤛🏼
yeah he has a solid chance to be slowtwitch’s 2nd best triathlete. he does not win many regional races but overall he is solid.
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Ha!! He was the overwhelming favorite months ago when he announced he was doing the series exclusively. Even after oceanside with his mishap, we all knew he would slot in another race to get rid of that score. And it just showed that he was ready to win that day and then go dominate Texas right after. He literally could get a perfect score in the series, never mind just winning it. I do think someone will take him in the 70.3 WC though, that’s where all those ITU guys will show up with similar running speeds…
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Pierre Le Corre not Les Corre!
Don’t forget about Jonas “Stromberg” lol
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IM Hamburg (WPRO only) in 12 days: the next IM Pro Series race.
Results there will give a clear steer how the IM Pro Series may play out for the top end/10.
Thorsten has shared his ‘seedings’ (extract below) and the data on which he relies suggests a battle to the wire between Philipp and Matthews.
Comments:
- Opportunity for the 5 x KQs may reach down to #10.
- Hamburg is ‘rated’ several minutes faster than Texas so either or both will be looking to come closer to the 8 hour mark.
- Has Philipp’s bike stepped up as much as one assumes Matthews’ has in the last 8 months? Stand by to be surprised; or not.
- I note Pierré’s impressive win in Aix but why race hard only 14 days before: she has a fortnight to recover.
- Philipp is on the start list for Kraichgau. Is this just a training session? I guess she may wish to race Marbella in November, or at least keep her options to do so.
- No Haug (who must still validate, and had to DNS IM Lanzarote)
| Pos’n | Name | Nation | Total (incl Ts) | Swim | Bike | Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philipp | GER | 08:06:27 | 00:54:30 | 04:23:25 | 02:43:32 |
| 2 | Matthews | GBR | 08:06:34 | 00:53:01 | 04:22:52 | 02:45:41 |
| 3 | Pierré | FRA | 08:18:55 | 00:51:09 | 04:27:06 | 02:55:41 |
| 4 | Reischmann | GER | 08:28:19 | 00:58:34 | 04:29:51 | 02:54:53 |
| 5 | Hering | USA | 08:28:25 | 00:54:53 | 04:34:35 | 02:53:57 |
| 6 | Lewis | USA | 08:35:53 | 01:02:00 | 04:35:33 | 02:53:20 |
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This order makes a lot of sense, including Matthews and Philipp being essentially tied for #1. Maybe, just maybe I’d be a bit more bullish on Hering and a bit less enthusiastic on Pierre (Hamburg bike being a blow dry).
I would be a lot more bullish on loevseth potentially spoiling the German uk party for most of the day
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Looking at the rest of the field, Clutterbuck will likely swim away and have several minutes on anyone else, and then ride as hard as, till caught: very much shades of Vitoria last year. Think the idea of Pierré swimming faster than Matthews is data unreality (expect them to exit the water together).
Matthews will be keen to start her bike clear of Philipp so keen to create a gap in the Alsters. We saw Pierré bike well in Aix, and bear in mind all but the descent in Nice, maybe she can ride with Matthews. Will the differences in power (as opposed to w/kg) make a difference on this flat course: Matthews (new Dowsett model) must have higher NP over 4 hours (than waif Pierré and Philipp).
Hering was unable to ride at Findlay’s standard in St George but held her at Oceanside. Losing minutes on the bike seems a reasonable estimate. Would be good to see a run as good as last year’s 2:52 from her.
Looks to me as if the top athletes are likely to spend the vast majority of the bike&run alone (which would be a pity from a spectator PoV). Let’s hope the coverage recognises that the race is not (just) about the leader at any time (till the end). We need splits displayed with clarity and derivatives thereof discussed by commentators (with apologies to those who think calculus is a cloud formation).
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Dream on baby 
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