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Didn't see a video on that page, but it's here: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a23281242/denise-mueller-korenek-breaks-bicycle-speed-record/ https://www.bicycl
by apo 8y ago
Didn't see a video on that page, but it's here:
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a23281242/denise-mueller-korenek-breaks-bicycle-speed-record/ https://www.bicycling.com/news/a23281242/denise-mueller-kore...
That must have taken a lot of training. One wrong move and it's game over.
- 07d046 8y agoCrazy. But I'm not so sure about this claim that the coach makes: My theory is that women are able to push that aging envelop a little further than men and are more capable of long-distance peak performance At the top end, the strongest men are always stronger than the strongest women, and age impacts women more quickly than men, judging by rowing results: https://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/racing/records/world/2000 https://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/racing/records/world/...
- jchrisa 8y agoIn my day to day life in the biking world, the women who don't train can keep up with the men who do.
- saagarjha 8y agoMight be because men are more likely than women to be overweight, or at least out of shape?
- craftyguy 8y ago[citation needed]
- saagarjha 8y agoHere’s one: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-overweightobesity-rate-by-gender/ https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-overweightob... The numbers were a bit higher than I expected: 70% of men in the US are overweight and 60% of the women? Wow.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThe medical definition of "overweight" is pretty broad, and may include some people you wouldn't think of that way at a glance. But yeah, it's pretty bad. Edit: Completely baffled why people are downvoting this.
- Tempest1981 8y agoI read your comment as “yeah but those stats are only 80-90% accurate”. (I didn’t downvote it)
- soundwave106 8y agoBMI is a measurement. The ill effects of obese BMI on health is pretty much settled. The main thing I know there's been some recent controversy regarding the health risks of the edge cases of the "overweight" category. (https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-being-a-little-overweight-ok-bmi-controversy-1746304 https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-being-a-little-overweight-...). My best guess is that your edge cases are going to come from people who are slightly overweight but still exercising regularly and have an overall healthy diet (as this WebMD page implies -- https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/can-you-be-fit-fat#1 https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/can-you-be-fit-fat#1). These people may be healthier overall than someone in the "normal" range with a bad diet and sedentary lifestyle. Best guess is that this is not the majority of overweight people, though... Exercise statistics in the US are pretty dismal. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-80-percent-of-american-adults-dont-get-recommended-exercise/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-80-percent-of-american-adul...).
- adrianN 8y agoThe US must be a nation of body builders if 70% overweight doesn't mean >65% too fat.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI just meant that mildly overweight people wearing well-fitting clothes may not "read" as overweight to the casual observer. Some people think "overweight" means "obese," which makes the 70% figure more startling. It's still a major national health issue.
- CydeWeys 8y agoI don't see how that's possible, given that men's times are better than women's times in all events. Just look at records, race times, etc. The trained men are dominating the trained women, and clearly the untrained women won't do better than the trained women. This pattern is consistent across all sports except possibly ultra-endurance events (way longer than a marathon equivalent).
- jchrisa 8y agoI'm not talking about athletes, I'm talking about out of shape dads vs out of shape moms.
- pmiller2 8y agoWomen do as well or better than men in ultra distance swimming. See https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/the-obscure-endurance-sport-women-are-quietly-dominating.html https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/the-obscure-endurance-sport-w...
- 07d046 8y agoYep, I've heard the same about thru-hiking. Women might be faster at running 2000+ miles than men. It's for efforts measured in minutes or hours that the fastest men are faster than the fastest women. Edit: I wasn't expecting my comments here to be so controversial
- bloomer 8y agoDo you have any source for this? It seems with such a small participation rate for thru-hiking, getting any sort of meaningful data about relative abilities would be unlikely.
- 07d046 8y agoThat's very true, extraordinarily few people are going for fastest times on these, so it's quite speculative. Here's an article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-longest-hiking-trails-a-woman-finds-equal-footing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-longest-hik...
- skookumchuck 8y agoWomen tend to be lighter than men, which likely makes a difference.
- bloomer 8y agoThat article actually says that the average time for women is faster than the average time for men and that the fastest male times are still much faster than the fastest female times. The hypotheses they propose for the difference are either selection bias due to differing participation levels or possibly body fat percentage difference leading to greater bouyancy which specifically helps in swimming.
- taneq 8y agoITT: People talking past each other about 'highest performing males outperform highest performing females at almost everything' vs. 'average women are better at some things than average men.'
- dmurray 8y agoAlso this is not a long-distance endurance event, it lasts only a few minutes and should be more about technique, peak power output and engineering skill. The fastest people in the world at 1500-metre runs or 5k bike time trials are never 45-year-old women.
- 07d046 8y agoDefinitely. As a rule of thumb, the shorter the event, the more it advantages young males.
- komali2 8y agoHoly shit. At around 2:45 either she speeds up quickly, or the car slowed down for a moment, and she was apparently millimeters from colliding with that little bar. Five seconds later, she's nearly pitched out the left side of the car (right side of the video). From the perspective of the video it looks like shockingly small margins for error. The raw courage is remarkable, I'd never do anything like this!
- jlebar 8y agoThe bike appears to have a device on it which allows it to collide with the bar of the car safely. It appears to me that she collides with it a bunch of times, both while accelerating and decelerating. This appears to be by design? Definitely the risk of hitting the side of the fairing seems nontrivial though.
- LanceH 8y agoit's probably not just a bar, but a roller that spins.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoLooks to me like a lever hooked to the brake lines, so if she hits the bar the wheels brake. That's how I would hook it up anyway :)
- ufmace 8y agoDunno what they did to the brakes vs standard bicycle brakes, but I'd be very worried about activating them automatically at ~170mph. With those speeds and the winds, it wouldn't take much to set you tumbling across the ground. I would expect they only brake very carefully and gently until they get the speeds back down some.
- AstralStorm 8y agoAt those speeds, even maximum braking is gentle - the blocks near instantly heat up and lose material. There's a reason why car and motorcycle use heavily cooled and much stiffer as well as more abrasive materials for brakes. You have to be really careful to engage both front and back brakes at the same time though.
- Shinchy 8y agoThanks, it's crazy that it doesn't look that fast in the video even though she's going over 180mph.