The winner’s (Ryan Shanahan) bike split was 2:08:06; 3 minutes faster than the 2nd fastest split (Julie Whalen) and 13 minutes faster than the 3rd fastest time (Kevin Gingras). He won the race by just under 14 min.
That is sick fast, right?
I saw this as well. And I thought I was riding fast!! It was very humbling to see his bike split. My god.
-Matt
I did a doubletake when I saw that guy’s bike split. 26.25 MPH!!!
I kept telling myself that these people who were FLYING by me on the bike HAD to be on relay teams. They couldn’t be riding that fast & still run afterward, could they?
Then there’s the guy with the 0:44 T2 split. How do you do that??!?!!!
:44 T2? Wow, that’s smokin’ fast. I guess there’s always room for improvement, huh?
I guess you really need to think it through & practice…
- Running dismount, leaving shoes on bike
- Speed laces
- Already wearing race number
- Pee on the bike during the last couple miles
- Stuff new gels, etc. into pockets while running out
- Sprint to the exit
As was observed, I didn’t do any of these things
"Then there’s the guy with the 0:44 T2 split. How do you do that??!?!!! "
You can ask him, he posts on the forum as efernand or something like that. Local stud around SE Michigan. The guy who came in right after him (and also had the second fastest T2) is also a SE michigan guy and a good friend of mine. Both are extremely talented athletes.
Extremely talented, I agree! Great job for both these guys!!
The winner’s (Ryan Shanahan) bike split was 2:08:06; 3 minutes faster than the 2nd fastest split (Julie Whalen) and 13 minutes faster than the 3rd fastest time (Kevin Gingras). He won the race by just under 14 min.
That is sick fast, right?
Wait a sec here, a 2:08:06 is smokin no doubt, but if I am reading you right the second fastest split was by a Woman and only 3 minutes slower? Now that is freakish!
The crazy thing about Jay (7th OA) is that he was off since basically 2003 Wisconsin until this spring. He hurt his back and had to have back surgery, and his recovery was a bitch. He just started getting on the bike this past spring and is already that fast. It’s amazing actually.
Too bad they didn’t give out awards for fastest T2. 
Ryan is a machine. I started in the 2nd wave and caught just about all the 50+ wave ahead of me. I had the 4th fastest swim and only know of a few people who beat me out of the water. I started the bike and Ryan came by on the first hill, he was just flying! I couldn’t believe it. I thought that he had to have started in the wrong wave, and was going out too hard on the bike. I tried to keep him in sight, but he just motored away. I didn’t have my best ride, but be crushed me by 15 minutes! I tried to make it up in T2 though. 
Too bad I ran out of gas in the last few miles of the run also.
I wondered about Julie Whalen’s bike split also. I guess she could be a pro bike racer who decided to try a 1/2 IM.
I has a 1:07 T2 even though I dropped my hat and had to run back to my bike and grab it. Since I had been warned about the lack of shade on the course (by the guy with the :44 second T2), I though at the time it was worth the extra 15 seconds to go back and find it. I don’t really practice transitions, except at races, but I do think about them and this is what worked for me:
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put socks on in T1
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left shoes on the bike
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race number already on
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drank up in the last 15 minutes of the bike so I didn’t stop to drink in T2
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speed laces on the shoes
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put all gels in a single plastic bag so I could just grab the bag instead of trying to grab a few gels with sweaty hands
FWIW, if my math is right, I moved up from 178th place to 167th place solely because I was faster than places 168 to 178 in combined transition time.
Of course, the speedy transitions still don’t put that much of a dent into a bike split that was 358th place out of 508 participants.
Question for you folks with really fast bike splits: How hard do you work for 56 miles? 75%, 90%? Build to 100%? I felt good getting off the bike, it felt like I still had a fair amount of energy left. I haven’t done enough races to know what will happen if I do 56 miles at 90%. My theory is that shorter races are different, since you’re on the bike for only about an hour.
If you’re going to be in Three Rivers in two weeks, take it easy on us slow guys… 
Ryan would have also been faster on the bike at the Muncie Endurathon if he had stayed on course(Police Car park job at one of the turns made things confusing). Im glad he went off course though because it would have been alot more difficult for me to run down a 10 minute lead versus the 6 1/2 min lead We need to talk him into doing an IM sometime though…I think he is strong enough to get off and run a 3:30 or better and with his cycling/swim strength he would do some dominating.
Not to take away from the studly 2:08 bike split, but if Kevin Gingras was 14 min behind in 2:22, it must have been a fast course.
Here are Kevin’s splits from Peterborough including at 2:30 bike:
6 4:32:33 KEVIN GINGRAS COLUMBUS 1/70 M35-39 151 7 43 31:36 1:35 1:29 5 15 2:30:26 35.9 1:13 1 7 1:27:50 4:10
I did a 2:23.xx split at Steelhead which was the 9th best bike split so I guess I can chime in here. I probably did it at 80-85% effort I guess. I don’t use an HRM so I can’t comment on HR% and such. This came at the end of a tough 4 week training block (my focus is specifically on IM) so I did no taper or rest for this race. My goal was to race hard and not worry if I blew up on the run (which I didn’t) I generated some leg burn at times when I normally wouldn’t but I thought ‘what the hell’ and I just rolled with it. I ran quite well but the at mile 9 my PE went way up while keeping about the same pace.
I dont think it was fast…Peterborough must have been slow, or Gingras had a better race at steelhead. Ryan just did a 53 something 40k, and like I said before he went off course at Muncie and still split a 2:11 or something.
I was waiting for my wife to catch up to me in T2 and heard someone named Julie talking about flatting out on the course, getting a ride back to T2, then heading out for the run. I think that explains her 2:1x bike split. I don’t think she was trying to do anything crafty and was just out to have a good time and make the best of the day. I’m sure she will get a kick out of this thread if she reads it.
Ryan is a very fast dude. He did a 4:12 at the Muncie Endurathon last month— Finishing ahead of Michael Smith, another very fast dude. Ryan’s swim and bike times were pro quality. According to the announcer he did his first few miles of the run at a 5:15 to 5:30 pace. I’d like to see him out at Wildflower or Eagleman.
-Marc
It’s still wicked fast but my buddy’s bike computer indicated that the course was short.
…yes Peterborough was slow. Hot, humid and windy, but I suspect Kevin had a better bike at Steelhead if he outrode Eric Fernando. In any case the man is very studly.