White Lake Half Ironman Results

I need to do several updates on races over the past weekend. I will start with the biggest one for the RMEC. We had quite the crowd show up at the White Lake Triathlons on Saturday and Sunday. To begin with, we had five athletes complete the half ironman distance on Saturday. The temperatures started out nice, put peaked at 87 just when the half marathon portion was beginning.

Jeff Miller was first across the line in 132nd place with a time of 5:27:44, knocking 13 minutes off of last year's time. Most impressive for Jeff was running a 1:39 half marathon after nearly four hours of exercise!

Jason Irvin was next from the RMEC with a time of 5:50:26. This was a touch slower than last year, but under much more difficult conditions. Dave Lavely was running a fever the night before the race, but still managed to run an excellent race finishing in 6:03:06 and improving by a minute over 2007. Cliff Amos felt the heat beating down, but still gutted his was to a 6:24:20 finishing time. Congrats guys!

Mary Whitwell had a very impressive race, finishing 104th overall and 2nd in her age group with a time of 6:28:10. She came out of the water with the 39th fastest swim time, and followed up with a solid ride despite windy conditions. A late start time for her age group put Mary in the peak of the heat for the run, but not even dehydration and double vision could stop her from pushing through to the finish. Truly this was one of the gutsiest race performances of the year for the RMEC!

Also on Saturday, the RMEC sent out a relay team comprised of Phoebe Whitwell, Kinnie Pruden and Tracy Proctor. This was an all women's team that was a force to be reckoned with. . . the only problem is there was not a female relay category. Even so, Phoebe at only age 15 in her first open water swim had a 39:54 time for the 1.2 mile distance. Next Kinnie had the 7th fastest relay bike time averaging 20.3 miles per hour for 56 miles. Running the anchor leg was Tracy with a 1:49:37 half marathon time, also good enough for the 7th fastest. Overall the team finished 7th place out of 21 team, and easily would have been the fastest all womens team if they were keeping track. Great job ladies!

The next update will be on the White Lake Sprint. After that I will give an update on the Indianapolis Mini Marathon and the North Carolina Marathon in Greensboro.