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Some time back I looked at the speeds, top five, average, etc. of LD's 
and 50's by region for an entire season. I turns out that in all regions 
the speeds in the 50's are faster than the LD's. Some regions they were 
quite a bit faster.

Truman

David LeBlanc wrote:
> It is actually quite common - quite a while back, I looked at several
> hundred ride results, and on average the 50 mile riders run 15% faster over
> roughly twice the distance (and this was a statistically valid sample size).
> Your 1st place "racing LD'er", if they were able to hold the same pace as
> they did the 25, typically would end up about 15th in the 50. The cases
> where the LD distance had faster speeds were very uncommon.
>   


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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