Kona Top 25 M & F Shoe Choice
Hi guys, I made this spreedsheet that has marathon times, finishing times, weight, height, and a ton of other statistics relating to what shoes the top 25 pro finishers had from each race this past weekend. I would love you feedback on the data, help filling in missing entries or any other general anecdotes about the information. Thanks.
Sheet Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cBO0PwjrQmhp_v8Zw8MpxEYTfGvOwnjK8C-w3o6KCyY/edit?usp=sharing
Some general trends:
Hoka was the most worn shoe at 11 pro's with ON right behind with 10.
The fastest average marathon with both females and males wearing the shoe was from Asics, and the slowest was Hoka.
The fastest male shoe on average was the Asics Metaspeed Tokyo Sky and the slowest was the Hoka Rocket.
The fastest female shoe on average was interestingly the Hoka Rocket and the slowest was the ON Cloudboom Lightspray by almost 15 minutes.
A lot of the data is skewed with times only coming from either male of female so created average differential to fastest time and to average time to show which shoe performed above the mean, or closests to the fastest racer on course. That is the last two categories.
Also, I added height and weight to help reveal how that can effect shoe choice for athletes in a sport with suck diverse body shapes like triathlon. Let me know again any interesting trends that arise. Thanks so much.