![]() Ketchell's solution was to dig up the roundabout and start again, turning the -2% camber into a +1% one. Good for taking rainwater away from a tourist attraction, terrible for a marathon runner trying to make an about turn while travelling at 13mph. ![]() The presence of a historic building in its centre meant that the road had been designed with a -2% camber. He is a man well schooled in sport's one percent advantages - the so-called marginal gains. Why? As a data scientist Ketchell has helped Team Ineos (formerly Team Sky) win three Tours de France. For the next four hours until sunrise, he kept a one-man watch over this hump in the road - a pivotal piece in the complicated jigsaw of Kipchoge's 1:59 Challenge. Ketchell was desperate to check nobody was trespassing on a small roundabout that had been his second home for the past two weeks. He was so unsettled that he jumped out of bed and hotfooted it 3km across Vienna. ![]() But 3,500 miles away in Austria, American scientist Robby Ketchell was woken by a nightmare at 3am. ![]()
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