I started in the second wave. This race caters to first timers, so there are all levels of experience in the water. I was surrounded by people doing the breaststroke. I managed to swim away from them, only to get slowed down on the inside of the first buoy.

I thought that I had a much better swim than what the chip time said. The swim has always been my limited, but today I actually felt like I did much better and was competitive.

No wetsuit, dropped my goggles and swim cap at the GREYHOUNDS tent, grabbed my bike and I was off!

Nearly perfect T1. I probably could have run a little faster to cut off a few seconds.

The hills were more of a struggle today than almost any other time I've ridden this course. I still did well, but my legs felt it!

Again, I thought I was a bit faster than this, but I felt fast.

Another decent T2. I wasted a couple of seconds trying to strap my FR305 on my wrist - I didn't stop running out of T2, but it took some of my focus away from the race. I ditched the strap with some friends as soon as I saw them.

Run went very well. I was faster here than I thought I would be. I figured I'd be pushing the 7:45 pace as I haven't really done any speed work this year. I had a good idea of my pace based on people around me, but my Garmin was in my pocket, so I never looked at it during the run. HR data says that I could have pushed a little harder.

Try a few interval sprints throughout the course, that would have put me ahead of a few people and cut off some time from my OA finish.

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This past week has been brutal. Becky was out of town for 3 days (I was home with my girls for 3 days... Sophia is teething), work has sucked (my last 2 shifts have left me with less than 3 hours of sleep each night) and all of my training thus far has been focused on Racine. Today's race was for fun - so it was very successful!


Took about 2 minutes off from last years OA time.


The 2nd place person in my AG didn't have a run time and was given a 2nd place finish time of 59 minutes (though he swam 10+ min and had a 4 min T1 and a 38 min bike), the 3rd place person was the individual start.

That's some bull crockery right there!

UPDATE (6/14/2010): Good News!!! The chip company that did the timing for Hawk Island recognized a mistake in my AG. Turns out, the person who was in 2nd, did not have a 8 minute 5k. So I did in fact take 3rd place! They were even so kind as to update their Results page.

http://results.active.com/pages/displayNonGru.jsp?orgID=216362&rsID...