Thorsten Radde Tri Rating Mile High Endurance Podcast

We've got Thorsten Radde from TriRating.com joining us today to help us understand how the pro ranking system works and analyze the results at Daytona and how the pros raced compared to their past performances.
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In Today's Show
Feature interview with Thorsten Radde Endurance News - Strava's 2020 COVID records What New in the 303 - ItCouldBeMe Fund Raise for NV Cyclists Video of the Week - Paula Finlay's win and Daytona; Sam Long Race Rundown Holiday shows  
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Interview with Thorsten Radde
Over the past couple of weeks we have been referring to the PTO "pro rankings" and we have the guy who literally come up ranking system. We've got Thorsten Radde of Tri Rating with us today.  The Tri Rating site has the PTO results analyzed -  PTO Championships 2020 at Challenge Daytona – Analyzing Results and we wanted the expert to help us understand the results and who had the outlier performances of the day.
What started out has a curiosity and hobby of collecting and analyzing pro triathlete results has turned into a near ten year journey of publishing rankings and his annual Kona Report.  We had a ton of questions about how his formula works, how hard it may be to collect all that data, when he's going to start his own online betting app.
 
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