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Ironman Canada 2011 Results Analysis

April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ironman Canada 2011 Results
Ironman Canada 2011 Results

Ironman Canada 2011 Results

Diving back a bit into the past we had a look at the results for Ironman Canada in 2011. We’ve done our usual analysis on them and posted them up on the Ironman Canada pages. It has all the usual stuff – breakdown by age group and sex for the swim bike and run and lots of useful graphs. We’ve rejigged our normal charts for the top 10 age groupers in each category so that they are a little clearer and more self explanatory. Now you get the top ten for each age group for the swim, bike and run as well as the average time for the top 10.

So for example if you are 35 – 39 and you’re looking for a Kona spot without roll down at Ironman Canada in 2012 you need to be looking at a total time in the region of 9:45, a 53 minute swim, 5:05 on the bike and 3:21 on the run. If you can’t do that, it’s time to figure out how with your training plane (and this is a good article for pointing you in the right direction), chose a different race or work on how you’ll be ready to do it next year.

For those of us not looking for a Kona slot the charts are still useful as they give you a sense of where you’ll be performing in your age group and help you set some good goals and targets for your performance. Enjoy!

Ironman Canada 2011 Results Analysis

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Competitors at Ironman Hawaii since 1978

March 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Competitors at Ironman Hawaii from 1978

Here’s a little chart of Ironman Hawaii triathletes since 1978. It shows the number of people racing each year since 1978 and for a number of years the male female split.

Competitors at Ironman Hawaii from 1978

Competitors at Ironman Hawaii from 1978

Before the early 2000′s the results are still on paper and are given as an overall list. This means that we have to go through and count the number of male and female entrants. Lots of opportunity for error and somewhat slow. That’s why we have a bit of a gap in the middle of the graph at the moment – but it should be updated over time.

The chart shows starters as opposed to finishers – initial data shows that DNF’s were in the 5 – 10% range in the 90′s and a certain Julie Moss kept coming back and DNFing. Three times by my count.

The other interesting thing shown is how racer numbers slowly climb each year suggesting that by 2020 there will be 2000+ triathletes competing in the world championship at Hawaii if the current trend continues.

Check out our Ironman Hawaii pages for more information about the Ironman World Championships

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Ironman New Zealand Race Guide

February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Waiting to race via maddyswelt on Flickr

We’ve just put up our Ironman New Zealand Race Guide. It’s definitely the best we’ve done yet with loads of detailed information that will make racing and winning faster and easier.

We’d hoped to do Ironman New Zealand and Abu Dhabi Triathlon this week but time constraints meant that we had to choose and I’ve have more fun swim, bike, running in New Zealand than I have in the UAE.

So what have we got. In the guide this week you have pages of information on the swim, bike and run course as well as transition. We’ve stuffed them with photos from previous events plus some cool pictures of key points on the course.

We’ve also picked out some of the best race reviews of the past five years, a stack of YouTube videos and some race photos. Better yet – because we didn’t have the time to put one of our race guides together we decided that you could get the bonus items from that for free. So on the race plan page there are course flyby videos and detailed weather charts for race week in Taupo.

We will try and do race analysis of IMNZ and Abu Dhabi but this depends on the accessibility of race results. Some cool BeyondTransition wrist bands for anyone who sends us an excel or pdf of the splits

Back a week or so to Ironman Sri Lanka and we sat down and did some analysis of the results and came up with about 20 charts and graphs. They cover everything from male female comparisons, performance analysis and country comparisons. Why was the fastest country and which was the slowest? All there for your delight and delectation.

Enjoy and as ever do give us some course reviews from Iron and half iron triathlons raced this year or last as they will help us write even better course guides in the future.

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