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Björn did fantastically well on both races. But had he not taken part in the TAW he may have won TCR or perhaps TAW was good preparation and he’d have done worse.
I said to him I think it would have been a lot closer. I think he faded in the later part due to accrued fatigue.
But even data collected is useless, as everyone body is different, so finding a trend would be pointless.
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There are definitely lots of problems with collecting data, especially at this stage when the sample size is relatively small. But if we only consider racers who have done it more than once, so we can omit any individual-level differences to some extent, then we could get more accurate predictions. Power data and accurate moving time and distances would be useful
bananaskid
The problem with ultra racing is we don’t have enough data to really make statements like this.
Björn did fantastically well on both races. But had he not taken part in the TAW he may have won TCR or perhaps TAW was good preparation and he’d have done worse.
@hippy when you did TCR after TABR did you feel better or worse than when you did the TCR the first time? Despite the positions both of you and Michael’s average distances per day didn’t change much that much (less by about 5%). This could have easily been down to the heat in ‘17, although ‘16 was a relatively hillier route.
Also, what the hell did you do in ‘16 - you rode around 200km more than everybody else?