{"id":8684,"date":"2021-07-28T00:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:59:15","slug":"kona-by-the-numbers-class-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"Kona by the numbers: class of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>The tough conditions at this year\u2019s Ironman Hawaii were plain to see, with strong sea currents for the swim, gusty crosswinds blowing across the Queen K highway and daytime temperatures peaking above 30\u00b0C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >We asked renowned tri statistician Raymond Britt (founder of RunTri.com) to crunch the numbers for us, and his findings reveal that average finish times hit 11:35hrs this year, up from 11:06hrs in 2013 and 11:32hrs in 2012:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p >The picture was broadly the same across all categories, with only the pro men managing to equal their 2013 average time of 8:50hrs:<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >Of the 21 categories racing last Saturday, ten of them came in below the average time of 11:35hrs:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p >Looking at the average splits across the three disciplines (plus transitions), the biggest increases were on the bike leg:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >Average bike splits varied this year from 4:42hrs for the pro men to 7:35hrs for W60-64:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p ><em>(Main image: Paul Phillips)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><em><strong>Did you race in Hawaii last weekend? How did you get on? Let us know in the comments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.mynoen.com\/cheap-adidas-shoes.html\/cheap-adidas-women-shoes.html' title='cheap adidas women shoes'>cheap adidas women shoes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tough conditions at this year\u2019s Ironman Hawaii were plain to see, with strong sea currents for the swim, gusty crosswinds blowing across the Queen K highway and daytime temperatures peaking above 30\u00b0C. Advertisement We asked renowned tri statistician Raymond Britt (founder of RunTri.com) to crunch the numbers for us, and his findings reveal that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}