The triathlon world (and probably the cycling world) was abuzz this morning over tweet's from Lance Armstrong and Chris Lieto's twitter accounts about a head to head dual TT out in Hawaii. They raced 14 miles, 1 min apart. Who do you think won?
Pre race vid:
Post race vid:
So something REALLY REALLY baffles me here. Lance won in 18:35, 15 seconds faster than Lieto. Cool. I get that.
But Lance said that he averaged 56 km/hour = 35 mph. If you did 14 miles in 18:35, you would HAVE to maintain an average of 45 mph. I am confused!!! If they did 10.83 miles in 18:35, then yes, they would have maintained a 35 mph average. This is simple math, right?!?!?!?!
Regardless, really cool stuff to watch!
The time must be in metric. Haha. I guess Lance should stick to biking and not math :)
ReplyDeleteThose tail winds were ridiculous! I think next time they should race into the wind.
You may enjoy this Pro's Blog. She was at the tail end of the 2nd video you posted.
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fast! Thanks for the post. I refuse to get into twitter as I am into facebook so this helped stay connected!
ReplyDeleteJon- So glad you posted this - I was going to say you should check Bree Wee's blog on this, but I just noticed someone beat me to it. It is pretty cool, check it out. I wonder if Lieto would have beat Lance if he didn't swim like, 3 miles first? :)
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