Spirit of Racine Half Ironman Triathlon (Page 11)

The HFP is conspiring against you.

I just saw the email address for them so I'm hoping that they still have the data from whatever chip I was using.

I might have gotten hardware then actually.  Does anybody know if they might send it?

I had the same sort of recollection, Wildee, that the event clock showed a time and working back from my wave start time, I calculated an approximate race time. Doing the math, the official results were about 3 minutes slower than my math would have indicated. So I'm thinking that I got the wave start time wrong, and it's a bit coincidental that it's off by the wave start time interval.

Going to the HRM, I get a result about two minutes faster than official, but here's the problem, somewhere between T2 and a bit down the path, I notice my HRM was stopped. I restarted, but I don't know how long it was out. So, given that my HRM says I was about 2 minutes faster than the official results AND it was shut off for a bit, I'd say the official results are probably pretty close in my case. Not sure how to explain your discrepancy, but the timing chip switcher-o sounds plausible.

You mean Bike time?  I know that it's possible to get a "drafting" penalty (ahem, Tammy), though, in the run.

I don't know what happened this year but I would say that this race took a step backwards.  Lots of timing issues but I thought even the check-in was goofy.  Packet pick-up had weird hand written signs, etc.  When they gave me my race number it didn't include a helmet number which I don't care too much about other than the impression that gives you.  I thought the expo was pathetic compared to last year.  Too crowded.  Parking was very difficult for me at least compared to the school they had it at before.  I thought the post-race food was better than last year actually.  What happened to the nice row of porta-pots at the start of the run?  That was bad for peeps to have to wait in line during a race!!  Volunteers I thought were excellent at all the aid stations!  They were aggressively trying to make sure that you got what you needed - that's a tough job!

Communication b4 the race with the delays was poor and if you haven't read my previous post I am very frustrated with my timing chip not being there when I checked in!

 I hope this race doesn't continue to slide in the future since it's got a great base to it and we are lucky to have it in our area.  Oh, traffic control was excellent which is tough on the community too.

Well I would say that the race for me went very well...i finished in 5:24:XX and for a first HIM I think that was pretty darn good. The only thing that got me was some of the roads for horrible, there seemed to be a lot of random cones, and the post meal was really bad.

On the plus side I had a fast bike, there were a lot of aid stations with GREAT people at them that let you know what they had.  I had a blast and there was and always will be SNAFUs but thats in the sport

Pretty sure it was riding with a Packer jersey?  

WOW!  That's an interesting one, and the same goes for #1557 for "3.4(a) Entire Course".  WTH is THAT all about?