roadrunner wrote:20 mins/km in the sprint would be exceedingly slow!
Not when results for M/W85+ competitors are part of the mix! 45.6 min/km was the slowest I found for A Finalists ...
I chose to remove all speeds slower than 20 min/km based by eye on the scattergraph displays, that for Middle speeds vs Sprint speeds shown below:-
Removing these outliers improved R squared from 0.71 to 0.79. Other scattergraphs were very similar.