Ratios

This is just purely for fun. Tonight I ate with T2 and some friends, and the question of the ratio of men to women (at triathlons) was raised.

I'm just going to sample two local races for each distance, and just one ironman race.

Ratios

Distance	Event	Men	Women	Ratio
Sprint	Seafair	538	506	1.1 : 1
Sprint	Kirkland	445	344	1.3 : 1
Olympic	Blue Lake	256	122	2.1 : 1
Olympic	Cascades Edge	82	43	1.9 : 1
Half-iron	Pacific Crest	438	154	2.8 : 1
Half-iron	Troika	173	73	2.4 : 1
Ironman	Arizona	1805	537	3.4 : 1

The trend is clear - stick with the shorter distances for a higher ratio of women!! So said from the male perspective. :-)