Wolfgang is THE MAN who invented first to T2. \
It may have been before your time Dev, but the original hammer to T-2 was not Wolfgang, but my training partner Kim Bushong in the Feburary 82 race. We came out of the water together in a super tough swim year(the worst on record), where only about 5 of us even broke an hour. I went on to my usual blow up in the heat, but Kim pu the hammer down and dropped Dave Scott right away in the howling winds. Tinley who swam a 1:10 or so, caught up to Dave on the bike, and the two of them rode together, while Kim hammered about 8 0r 9 minutes into them to T-2…Unfortunately for Kim, he hadn’t done much running in his life, but managed to hold on for 8th place. I remember this was the year that he decided to do his usual swim taper, and he did nothing for 2 weeks before the race, and I mean nothing(well, watch a lot of TV). On race day it was like he was shot out of a canon, and the taper worked perfectly for him. Funny thing was, he was a drop dead sprinter in swimming, did the 50 and 100yd free. Never would have guessed he had Ironman genes, except that he was not that good of a sprinter I guess. He went around 22 flat and 48 for the 50and 100, but that was ok for the Jr. College we swam at…
Not only was he the original hammer, but coming in 9 minutes of Tinley and Dave was never done again, and is about equal to Normans domination the last year he won…
Wasn’t the original “first to T2” man, John Howard? Maybe not as I am not sure T2 was even referred to as such that early in the game.