Triathlon and the Three-Day-Competition

Looking at numbers and knowing that good money was available to competitors at The Island House Triathlon, we can say that this competition becomes very important and promotes the best performance from athletes.  The prior year (2015), Javier Gómez won the race over Richard Murray and Cameron Dye.  Richard and Cam are considered examples of athletes that compete to their best ability, as well as Javi.  What do we learn by looking at their numbers in this competition?

Cam should work on his running technique.  He is a hard working athlete but strength is not the problem, he needs to improve efficiency.  From the records we can see that he cannot perform running in a sprint or Olympic distance triathlons.  His biking ability is easily compared with the best we see in triathlon as long as it is not a course like the one in Hamburg; he does not practice half a minute or minute all out.  His swimming is not too shabby.  Cam based on his biking ability was able to take second in this year competition.  He spends too much time on the floor when running; it means that he has a poor technique running.  He practiced to run faster (meaning short distances from last year) but he needs to practice more technique to improve efficiency.

 

Richard is very predictable, runs the same after the bike and from the three days we can infer that his mileage training is high.  He also needs to practice technique while running; he has not improved for the last five years, contrary to Javi.  Javi and Richard have been at the top of their game for many years without falling, and improving in different areas.  Running in the case of Javi, and swimming in the case of Richard.

This is the kind of research it can be done in triathlon which gives information about how to improve.  This research is “real and useful” as long as we have had reviewed the past very thoroughly.  We have done it.

	Richard MURRAY	RSA	M-PRO	1	00:39:04	01:54:19	01:02:12	03:35:34.8
	Cam DYE	USA	M-PRO	2	00:39:04	01:50:19	01:06:41	03:36:04.0
	Aaron ROYLE	AUS	M-PRO	3	00:38:34	01:53:57	01:05:42	03:38:12.9
	Terenzo BOZZONE	NZL	M-PRO	4	00:39:32	01:52:14	01:06:33	03:38:18.7
	Eric LAGERSTROM	USA	M-PRO	5	00:38:20	01:54:12	01:06:03	03:38:34.7

               

Javier GOMEZ

MALE

1

1

00:32:43

01:35:45

00:59:54

03:08:21.1

Richard MURRAY

MALE

2

2

00:34:20

01:34:30

01:00:53

03:09:42.9

Tim DON

MALE

3

3

00:34:45

01:34:11

01:02:18

03:11:13.3

Cam DYE

MALE

4

4

00:33:15

01:33:05

01:05:39

03:11:58.8

Leon GRIFFIN

MALE

5

5

00:35:12

01:35:20

01:02:24

03:12:55.5