Low 60s I’d say.
If it’s low 60s he’s winning the TdF with those W/Kg?! Probably 7x something - he’s quite tall.
fair point. I just thought he looks really slight compared to other trafleets. Doesn’t look like he has much upper body mass despite being an excellent swimmer!
He looks like Hercules compared to most pro cyclists 
I used to swim at the same time as them back when they were dominating ITU, both Alistair and Jonny have the upper body musculature of that skinny bloke who works in IT and never does exercise. AB’s quads look a bit chunkier since going longer IMO.
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I was watching a GCN vid yesterday, Dan Lloyd’s arms 
so technically Mr Brownlee finished 21st in his first full IRON distance event ?
…and it was Kona. So not a bad showing eh?
you tell me i am no expert
on paper reads finished just over half way in pro men ?
No shame in that at first Kona.
He could have not gone for the podium and paced himself to a maybe 8th - 12th ‘ish’ finish but he went for it. Fair play and I’m sure he’ll have learned a lot.
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Might have worth him swapping his wheel out before Having and then sitting in the chase group and possibly having a stronger run, all part of the learning experience though.
Do you reckon Jonny will move up to Ironman racing in a couple of years?
Ali said in one of his interviews that Jonny is deffo keen when the time is right
That’ll be good having them both racing and I think it will be an advantage for them from a training point of view.
I wonder if he waited to swap his wheel in Hawi because there’s a downhill afterwards, to assist with the chase back. On the way out, Clavel was setting a suicidal pace, maybe he wasn’t comfortable taking a chance earlier on.
After Tokyo I suspect, certainly a dabble at 70.3
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70.3 Worlds is end November, so I bet quite a few ITU folk will fancy a tickle post Tokyo.
They will, but they’ll need to qualify still which may interrupt Tokyo plans. Do pros also need to qualify in same time frame, ie before end of June?
But there are millions of 70.3s these days. Surely if they chose a slightly obscure one, it’d just be a training day out?!
Jan mentioned that he told AB about the soft tyre and he pretty much said ‘it’s fine’. So maybe it had only started getting really ‘unfine’ closer to Hawi?
Jury’s still out on road tubeless.
Great when it works, a total PITA when it goes wrong. Given how hard TLR tyres are to mount/remove, I don’t think just sticking a tube in during the heat of a race is very straightforward. Skipper lost what, 30 mins? in Tenby.