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Half Ironman Muncie Analysis – Part 2
A question that I’ve had is what is the profile of a successful triathlete. Are they a jack of all trades, or do they specialize in their strength? Take the person who got first place, and relative to their time, were they a better runner or cyclist? To look at this, I standardized the scores…
Half Ironman Muncie Analysis – Part 1
One of my favorite multisport races is the Half Ironman series – one mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13 mile run. It is long enough where nutrition and hydration is important, but short enough where you cannot ease the pace if you want to place well. After you can finish a Half Ironman, the next…
Darkest Hour: Part 2 – Pulling in data and basic plots
In the last post, we figured out where the stats data is stored and that it is stored in an XML format. Did I mention XML? It is a cool data storage format that defies regular one line : one case table formats. For our purposes, XML helps us manage things like the amount of…
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