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2008-09-02 6:22 PM

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Subject: IMKY by the numbers

IMKY 2008 Numbers

2,644 registered 

1,975 starters

669 DNS (25.3%)

1,793 finishers

182 DNF (9.2%)

DNS + DNF = 851 (32.2%)

Net % finishers:    67.8%

 

So how does this compare to 2007?  I thought you'd never ask. 

IMKY 2007 Participants:  2,131*
IMKY Finishers:  1564  
% Finishers:  73%
143 DNFs  (8% of starters)
424 DNS (20% of those signed up)
*I'm not certain of this number.  They (Mdot) take down the number of people registered after event.
If you signed up for 2009, I'm not trying to freak you out but sometimes a little fear is a powerful motivational tool. 

2008-09-02 6:28 PM
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I was wondering about those numbers! Thanks Mike!
2008-09-02 6:39 PM
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I thought you were DONE tapering, Mike.
2008-09-02 6:45 PM
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Awesome.

Does the number of finishers listed include those who finished in 17+ hours?
2008-09-02 7:01 PM
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RunningJayhawk - 2008-09-02 6:45 PM Awesome. Does the number of finishers listed include those who finished in 17+ hours?

 

I dunno.  I got that number off of what Aaron posted on the IMKY watching thread.

 

Cube, I'm tapering from 140.6 miles a week to 0 miles a week.

2008-09-02 10:51 PM
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Mike, you are the numbers god!!!

2008-09-02 11:43 PM
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AbbieR - 2008-09-02 11:51 PM Mike, you are the numbers god!!!

Plan on seeing a lot more of that now that he has all this time on his hands Wink

2008-09-03 8:06 AM
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Shermbelle - 2008-09-02 11:43 PM

AbbieR - 2008-09-02 11:51 PM Mike, you are the numbers god!!!

Plan on seeing a lot more of that now that he has all this time on his hands Wink

 

Whatcho talkin' 'bout Willis?!  I've got to train for IMKY 2009.....be here before we know it!

2008-09-03 10:06 AM
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"Net % finishers:    67.8%"

So IMKY was tougher than any bar exam.  Pretty impressive stuff.

2008-09-03 10:17 AM
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How is this one for you Mike?  What % of finishers were BTers?  :-)  Are your ready for another number challenge?

2008-09-03 10:24 AM
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amymengel - 2008-09-03 8:17 AM

How is this one for you Mike?  What % of finishers were BTers?  :-)  Are your ready for another number challenge?

Well done Amy!  Mike will come through for us



2008-09-03 10:29 AM
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AbbieR - 2008-09-03 10:24 AM
amymengel - 2008-09-03 8:17 AM

How is this one for you Mike?  What % of finishers were BTers?  :-)  Are your ready for another number challenge?

Well done Amy!  Mike will come through for us

Be sure to include me.  I actually finished this dang race, even though my timing chip was showing somebody else and the BT tracking spreadsheet had me as a DNS. 

2008-09-03 10:34 AM
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I've got one of my analysts working on a bell-curve graph of finish times.  I occured to me last night from looking at the finish times that the there are only a handful of sub-12s, a few more sub-13s, a whole bunch of 14 and 15 hrs finishes and less 16 and 17 hr finishes.  I tried to verify this Gaussian distrobution graphically but hit my Excel knowledge ceiling so hard I've still got a bump on my lil' haid.

Stay tuned....there are still more numbers to crunch!  :-)

 

~Mike

2008-09-03 11:06 AM
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Don't forget to adjust for RMS.
2008-09-03 11:37 AM
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Well I did not get to race IMKY but atleast I am still a number and I was not alone with 25% of the field not starting like me.

2008-09-03 4:58 PM
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Just curious, since you like numbers- what's the typical DNS rate at Ironman? Could I get that with some error bars and standard deviations?


2008-09-04 6:50 AM
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Unless it's in a pie graph I'm not lookin' at it.
2008-09-04 8:26 AM
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The finish times were converted to fractional days and put all the times is .05 day (1.2 hr) buckets.  The data is roughly bell shaped and the average was :
13:41:36

This confirms my theory....not just about IM finish times but life in general.  There are only marginal differences in MOST of us....there will always people people out on the extremes but we're not that much different.

~Mike

 



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2008-09-04 8:34 AM
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Presented like a true engineer


Thanks Mike

(Hey it was great talking with you in line before the race. Awesome job!!!)
2008-09-04 9:13 AM
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I'm also curious how those numbers are split between males and females.

2008-09-04 10:14 AM
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David tri's - 2008-09-04 6:50 AM Unless it's in a pie graph I'm not lookin' at it.

hmm pie... I like pie

2008-09-04 11:48 AM
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What about the median time (instead of the average)?
2008-09-04 1:46 PM
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Okay.  I did some playing around with the numbers.  Median finish time 13:46:22.

 

 





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2008-09-04 1:50 PM
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Nice work!
2008-09-04 1:53 PM
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The Excel file is too large.  I copied the .txt file from the website and manipulated it to conform to Excel.  If anyone wants it, PM your email address.

 I can't find the spreadsheet that had the BTer's bib number.  Does anyone still have it?

 

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