looking for pro men’s results … thanks!
Only spotty results so far… I do know Natasha Filliol won the won the womens, taking huge time back on the run. She’s in medical now recovering so I will have more details shortly. The other women were Lauren Jenson 2nd, and I think Tina Walter in 3rd.
The only thing I’ve heard about Jordan is that he “looked happy” at the finish, so that’s not much to go on at this point! I willl update this thread when I hear more. Levi maxwell was 2nd, Thompson was 3rd, didn’t hear who the winner was…
Joel
Oh shit…
Well I don’t think he won if that’s what you are implying! My source at the race was paying more attention to her daugther than the mens field…
Joel
Oh… I was here thinking “Man, Joel is really good!”… I guess you’re not THAT good, LOL! :-p (Jordan is gonna kill me when he reads this…)
congrats to Natasha …thats great!
The latest is that Jordan was about 10th overall.
Not bad! He’ll be a lot faster when he realizes that the others are as nervous and scared as him out there 
Chris Legh won by a HUGE margin (I think at least 10 minutes). Won in 3:58:XX on a very tough day. Three foot swells the whole swim, then very strong wind (guessing ~ 15-20mph with maybe 30mph gusts), then base temp of about 90F on the run (heat index of 100+ – they issued a “heat advisory” for Racine telling people to “stay inside” unless they NEEDED to go out… No mention of whether or not doing a 1/2IM was recommended.)
What I THINK the pro results are: some Aussie who I believe raced at Lifetime last weekend was 4th, Cam Widoff was 5th, Andrey Yastrebov of Team Timex 5th, Barrett Brandon of Team Kinesys 6th, some guy who races for Sugoi 7th, and then me 8th in 4:25/26~ish.
I did get passed by the overall age-group winner, who started 6 minutes back, so I’m guessing he was probably ~6-7th overall. I may also have gotten clipped by a hair by the second overall age-group finisher, which would make me 10th. So I think 9th or 10th.
It was a tough day, and I didn’t have the watts to really give’r on the bike. Tried to squeeze the best I could out of my legs on the run, but that wasn’t a whole lot.
Pretty pleased overall, though, since I rode by myself the WHOLE bike and was convinced I was light years behind (it is a very turny course, so hard to find a stretch where you can spot ahead). But when I finally came into transition, I realized I wasn’t so far back as I saw some guys leaving T2. I saw Chris Legh out on the run as I was coming in off the bike, so I think I figured out I was about 15-18 minutes back, and I thought for sure I was done for. But then out on the run course, I saw how massive his lead was, and hoped I might catch some people on the run, and could’ve with my best day, but it wasn’t to be.
Natasha and Chris were really in a class by themselves today. Natasha probably bested a lot of the men with her run split and in general really put together an incredible race, ESPECIALLY considering it was her first go at the 1/2 distance. Having spent a month or so training with her, I know she’s tough. But she really dug deep and gave’r (is that the appropriate tense, Joel?) today!
pretty cool to hear that Chris is doing fine despite the diagnosed heart problems…that guy has always been super fast over the half IM distance. I remember that he crushed a super strong field at the Oz champs some years ago (I think it was the Canberra half)