Post Race Performance Analysis

With the race and recovery behind me I have had some time to try and assess how I did this year compared to my 2013 performance.  Out on the course I was getting the feeling I was way off the pace which turned out to be not quite true.  Additionally, it was a surprise that stage 1 and stage 2 were almost identical between the two years.  At least those allow a fairly direct comparison.  Weather this year I believe played a larger role compared to two years ago.  While much cooler it was significantly more windy.  So in the end it looks like my pace was very close to where I was at two years ago but the field was perhaps not quite as strong (even though it was 25% larger, about 1,400 vs 1,100).  I am happy with my old man performance....

Stage	2013 Miles	2015 Miles	Delta
1	23.0	22.4	-0.6
2	19.0	19.3	0.3
3	23.6	22.8	-0.8
4	46.9	56.9	10.0
5	26.2	26.2	0.0
6	4.8	7.1	2.3
Race Miles	138.7	147.6	8.9
Total Miles	143.5	154.7	11.2
	2013 Position	2015 Position
1	131	158
2	169	122
3	151	145
4	110	131
5	137	231
Overall	111	127
	2013 Time	2015 Time	Delta
1	4:34:30	4:45:03	0:10:33
2	4:39:17	4:14:01	(0:25:16)
3	4:53:43	4:47:38	(0:06:05)
4	11:32:39	14:09:25	2:36:46
5	5:15:46	5:10:52	(0:04:54)
Overall	30:55:57	33:07:01	2:11:04
	2013 Pace	2015 Pace	(km/hr)
1	8.09	7.58
2	6.66	7.32
3	7.76	7.72
4	6.58	6.5
5	7.98	8.11
Overall	7.24	7.19