Does anyone know what are some of verzbicas' recent swim(pool or tri split) or bike splits are?
Does anyone know what are some of verzbicas' recent swim(pool or tri split) or bike splits are?
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I was wondering the same. Is Smoragiewicz better then him in both the swimming and the bike?
Smoragiewicz is younger, but I think is bike leg is already better and perhaps even the swim. But I don't know either.
So I'm not sure if LV was the best triathlete at FL.
Does anybody here know?
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Wow. That kid's swim time is making me feel pretty confident about my future as a triathlete. You'd have to go 24 places south to find someone with a worse swim time than his.
LV's swim time was slow as he was coming off a recent back injury from a swim workout, so this race is not a good indictor of his swimming ability.
In the swim, he is 25 seconds, 19, and 11 seconds behind the three people who beat him.
He loses more ground to those same three guys in the bike (although the overall time for this section is greater - 26 minutes to 8 minutes) - 43, 28, and 22 seconds.
Those three guys finished 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the run behind LV, and all were within 35 seconds.
or call me lazy, but I can't find the distances of the legs. I'm supposing the run was a 5k and the swim - maybe 800 m??
Here's the link to the course map, which has the leg distances:
http://budapest.triathlon.org/en/athlete_info/junior/junior_course_maps/
Swim: 750 m
Bike: 19.03 km
Run: 5 km
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Wow. That kid's swim time is making me feel pretty confident about my future as a triathlete. You'd have to go 24 places south to find someone with a worse swim time than his.
Actually, 6.
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In the swim, he is 25 seconds, 19, and 11 seconds behind the three people who beat him.
He loses more ground to those same three guys in the bike (although the overall time for this section is greater - 26 minutes to 8 minutes) - 43, 28, and 22 seconds.
Those three guys finished 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the run behind LV, and all were within 35 seconds.
RE: the bike time --> Due to his slow swim, he wound up in the chase pack on the bike. In this kind of race, the chase pack often is slower than a lead pack, so LV's bike split was also slower than if he'd swam a split fast enough to put him in with the lead pack.
He did make up for a lot once he was running though.
Going by his swim time, it looks like he could swim a 1500m in 18" to 19" minutes. The world record for the 1500 swim (in pool) is around 14 minutes and mid change. So he is good, but definetely not world class.
Also the very best swimmer in that triathlon posted a 8.16....but he posted a 19 minutes run time.....translated, the best swimmers tend to be too heavy and do not usually have very good biomechanics.
Top swimmers often have a long trunk which poses disadvantages for running. Guys like Thorpe, have trunks that are way out of proportion to their legs, so they carry a lot of upper body weight for running, which is not economical.
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