I’m breaking the rules and posting about running instead of skiing. Â But skiers spend quite a bit of time running, and I’ve developed an interest in ultrarunning, so I thought this might be fun. I was reading about the Comrades Marathon recently, and was suitably impressed that those runners are stringing together roughly 55 sub-6 […]
Tagged running, speeds, ultramarathonFive mystery skiers, all women.  For each skier, their very next  (distance) race is a WC, OWG or WSC race.  Which of them are going to finish on the podium (top 3) in their very next race? To make things a bit more challenging, I’ve omitted the x axis labels (which is date, not age), […]
Tagged mystery skier, podium, prediction, quizIt’s been a light week at Statistical Skier; had to move the Statistical Residence to a new (much improved) locale closer to work, so things have been a bit hectic. We mucked around with the speeds that skiers travel at, looking at differences between races in Europe and the US. A short not on rivalries, […]
Tagged week in reviewAnother helpful commenter reminded me that Norwegian Tore Ruud Hofstad also retired this past July. Â My results for Hofstad stretch back to World Junior races in 1998 up to his retirement in 2010. Â I think one of the reasons I may have overlooked him is that he didn’t really race much last season. Â In fact, […]
Tagged retirement, retrospective, tore ruud hofstadI’ve talked about the amusing notion of victims and nemeses before. Â Let’s look at some extreme cases. Â Remember that a victim is someone you beat by a small margin (rather arbitrarily chosen by me to be less than or equal to ten seconds). Â A nemesis is just the reverse: someone who beats you by such […]
Tagged nemeses, rivalries, victimsI was following Andrew Gardner’s twitter feed a while back during the USSA spring meetings, and he mentioned a comment by James Southam that American courses are far easier than those in Europe. [1. I’m paraphrasing here; it was something to that effect.] That got me thinking about whether there was any way I could […]
Tagged Analysis, problem races, puzzle, skier speedHere’s what’s been cooking this week on Statistical Skier… I tried to wrap up the cross-country retirement posts, was told I forgot a few and so tacked on a post for Kristina Smigun-Vaehi. I snuck in a little cycling graph, showing the riders from this year’s Giro d’Italia who dropped out along the way. I […]
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