Spirit of Racine Half Ironman Triathlon (Page 10)

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I feel bad for ya - 2 in less than 5 miles.  WTF??

Yet, you had this smile afterwards!  What a trooper!

Forgot to add - if that was your hubby, he was funny.  And those 3 wee ones were cool!

Isn't the "4th leg" now categorized as bike pickup?

running2far - 2008-07-21 11:20 AM here they are http://www.hfpracing.com/results/results.php?eventid=40&raceid=... 5:14:06 I'll take it

I bet you were sitting on the can with a wireless laptop just waiting for these, weren't ya?

I know that I could not have pulled off a sub 40 min. 1.2 mile swim in regulation conditions.  BUT, I'll take it and claim a small victory!

I knew that they didn't account for extending the length of the swim to accommodate the width distance that they pulled in.

People chickened out because of the water temp?

As Amyjo says - P*ssies!

Time to start thinking about getting those RRs out!

Sooooo, what happened yesterday?

Alright, so the times are posted I'm quite confused.  My brand new Polar HRM has me at 5:52:28.  A time that my wife was monitoring throughout the day and seemed to agree with.  The official time has me at 6:00:26!  All the splits are off.  Official says 34:47 on the swim.  Last year on a longer course I think I was 35 or 36 and my HRM says 29:38.  A friend of mine who I am a better swimmer than he is was in the wave right before me and his swim was 31:53.  If he started out 3 minutes before me and yet my wife said I was right after him into tranisiton.

T1 the official for me is 7:27.  My watch has 2:53!  My watch is not that much off.  My transition spot was right at the exit to start the bike.  I was to me spot after the swim and moved pretty well and got out.  No way was my T1 7:27!

When I checked my bike in and got my timing chip my number, 1809, was not there.  Somebody else has to have gotten my timing chip.  They gave me another one and the guy wrote a note down on a piece of paper but I have to think that I have been given the times of whoever accidentally got my 1809 chip.  Thing is that the official report shows that I took 2nd in my Clyde 40+ 225+ AG and that's with a time I think is 8 minutes slower than I think I actually was.

The other thing that backs this up is that when I crossed the finish, I am 90% certain the clock said 6:15:xx or somewhere in that ballbark.  I was in the 9th wave which started 24 minutes after the first was went.  6:15:xx less 24 minutes = 5:51:xx.  Pretty much right on with what my HRM time says.  Arrrgggghhhh!  Better than last year though.  They never even posted a time for me last year.  It's like last year I wasn't even there although I've got the mental wounds to prove I was.