Kona Special: The 2016 Ironman World Championship Race Preview with Thorsten Radde

[sponsor image="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2016-09-15-at-8.25.33-PM.png"] EP's Kona Specials are brought to you by Life Post Collective, the brainchild of host Tawnee Prazak where she shares her years of expertise on holistic health, wellness, nutrition, fitness and more and helps you on your path to optimization. Life Post Collective offers practical evidence-based and experienced-based ways to lead a healthy, happy life and perform your best and features articles, videos, guides, forums, and more to come including live webinars with Q&A. Through LPC's integrative forums and features on the site, you can learn from not only Tawnee but also like-minded people all working towards common goals. Life Post Collective is only $10 a month to be a member; check it out now! [/sponsor] Our annual Ironman World Championships preview featuring expert Thorsten Radde of trirating.com. If you want the full guide to this race, download Thorsten's 2016 Kona Rating Report. On this show we give you all the important need-to-know info to be dialed in for this year's race taking place on Saturday, Oct. 8: Last year surprises or standouts Who was faster or slower than expected? Rinny hit by car prior to race (minor) & DNF last year - ready for redemption in '16? TO's huge day, and EP's post-Kona show with TO here to see what he did along with coach Mark Allen for his breakthrough race performance Lots of women ran their way to a top spot last year, including Sarah Piampiano who we had on the show this year, listen here Who had disappointing days and "back" this year? Jodie, Meredith, Luke, Bart. Marino done? Pro men's race dynamics How this race is executed and who will be big players this year Pro women's race dynamics Besides Ryf and Rinny, the women's race is looking to be a more open field. Missing "big" names like Steffan, Joyce, Blatchford, etc. How will it unfold? Podium predictions based on the past When analyzing the results of the previous races in Kona, a few interesting "patterns" emerge on how results change from year to year. While these pattern are in no way certain, they still offer some insights on what to expect from year to year 17 of the last 20 winners came from the Top 4 in the previous year. Top 10'er Trends About a third of the athletes between 4th and 10th place have finished there in the year before About a quarter haven't raced in the previous year Only very few athletes manage to take this step the next year from top 10 to podium About a third fall out of the Top 10 in the next race Heatmaps A five-level system to show an athlete's strength and weaknesses compared to the best athletes in the field, chances of doing well in one leg and overall Using Luke McKenzie's heatmap rating as an example to see how one might use this to improve in future Kona races Who are the rookies this year? Jesse Thomas, Mel Hauschildt, Kevin Collington, Patrick Lange, Kaisa Lehtonen, and more By the stats, who will be on the podium/top 5 this year Download the Kona Rating report to follow along and also see the full list of predicted finshes  Shoutout to oldest and youngest athletes racing Kona as a pro Natascha Badman - legend at 49 and still racing pro More women who are over 35 than men? Trivia!