Just about tied the best ever top 5 bike split average this year:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agu_Y5SLfSFKdGtLbW52ellKbGp1RjBXTTZHTF92Smc&hl=en_US
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I think that chart is a great illustration for the people who (up until yesterday) were wondering why the pros weren’t faster with all of these superbikes. Another interesting thing to look at would be top 5 run splits by each year- guarantee those are quite a bit faster now than they were 10 years ago.
the run splits over time are much more flat than the bike splits, suggesting that bike tech, not training, explains most of the bike trend
top run
average of top 10
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Any chance you could put weather variables (temperature, windspeed) on the chart too? Seems like conditions would be a pretty major variable to account for.
Any chance you could put weather variables (temperature, windspeed) on the chart too? Seems like conditions would be a pretty major variable to account for.
If there were a reliable source of queen K wind speeds during the race I would love to do that.
But there isn’t, supposedly the wind on the queen K can be varialbe over short periods of time and are not always reflected by the nearest weather stations.
but certainly, you only get record setting pace on the bike when the wind is low, like it was this year.
Or suggesting that training is allowing athletes to ride harder / faster and still run more or less the same - a la Crowie.
Or, dammit, global warming is making it harder to run fast.
I suspect it’s a combination of bike technology and training to bike hard and still run fast.
the run splits over time are much more flat than the bike splits, suggesting that bike tech, not training, explains most of the bike trend