Pickerel Lake Triathlon

This year's PLT had 23 teams and 34 participants. The weather was fantastic, the water was a perfect temperature, and the air was a little cool. We all lined up and Cindy, our faithful timer, sent us off. The big innovation was Randy's wetsuit which shaved a minute off his swim time. Expect to see more next year.

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Another special item of note; each individual/team was faster this year than last year.



Melissa and Cheri ran Water Station Number 1. Gail, Charissa, and Molly ran Water Station Number 2.Joe biked around to provide help for any bikers in need. This was needed when Ben attempted to wheelie over the speed-bumps on the back-side of Emerald Lake. It wasn't until the front of his bike was in the air that he discovered his front wheel was not attached. He landed on his fork, and it only got worse from there. Melissa's parents stayed at Castle Inn the week before. Melissa and I stayed with them the night before. Castle Inn is a very nice piece of property. The accommodations of their rental cottage, however, was not fabulous.Melissa wanted me to win in honor of her birthday. Winning would be nice, but I knew I was up against some very fast competitors. So I set a time goal of 1:23:00 - 11:00 swim, 32:00 bike, and 40:00 run including transition times. Soon into the start of the race I could tell that the swim felt more difficult than it should. I felt slow. Melissa told me my time when I got out of the water - 11:17. I was behind my goal, but not too badly. I would need to make it up on the bike.
The bike ride did not begin well for me. I was unable to get my feet into my pedal straps most of the way around the front of Emerald. On Emerald I hit some sand and crashed my bike. Fortunately I landed in the soft sand and didn't get hurt. Unfortunately I lost more time.




On the bike ride I had assumed that Randy was the only athlete ahead of me. Rounding Sylvan I passed Matt on the bike. I wondered why he was biking the course, and only later did I realize he was part of Abbey's relay team which was in second place after the swim.




I also caught Terry on the bike. I passed him on the tunnel into Emerald lake as he was transitioning the bike to Dan. Now the only person ahead of me was Randy. The rest of the bike ride had no hang-ups, and I went as fast as my legs could take me. I ended up having the fastest bike ride, but it was not on pace for my goal.During the run Doug took a bike and told Randy the spacing between him and the second place contender. This happened to be me, so I received several updates on how far behind I was - 1:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:00.
It would have been nice to know how far ahead of third I was. I kept expecting Paul to pass me because in the Riverbank I started faster than him, but he ended with more finishing power. But I finished very comfortably in second place with no view of either first or third. This is my third year in second place, so I have established myself as the Buffalo Bills of the PLT.

Place	Name	Overall	Swim	Bike	Run	Bike Pace (mph)	Run Pace (min/mi)
1	Randy Elenbaas	1:22:32	0:09:41	0:33:54	0:38:57	16.81	0:07:29
2	Jason Schaaf	1:26:37	0:11:15	0:33:45	0:41:37	16.89	0:08:00
3	Paul Soper	1:30:13	0:12:25	0:37:34	0:40:14	15.17	0:07:44
4	Dan/Terry Kett	1:30:48	0:11:11	0:38:21	0:41:16	14.86	0:07:56
5	Abby/Matt/Dwayne	1:34:14	0:10:52	0:41:41	0:41:41	13.67	0:08:01
6	Stewart Aspinall	1:36:14	0:16:35	0:35:32	0:44:07	16.04	0:08:29
7	Darren Schaaf	1:36:57	0:14:51	0:35:46	0:46:20	15.94	0:08:55
8	Mark VanHarn	1:39:52	0:12:34	0:42:02	0:45:16	13.56	0:08:42
9	Dan Kuiper	1:39:52	0:14:05	0:35:34	0:50:13	16.03	0:09:39
10	Steve Elenbaas	1:41:19	0:13:42	0:40:54	0:46:43	13.94	0:08:59
11	Dave Geschiere	1:41:46	0:15:01	0:37:31	0:49:14	15.19	0:09:28
12	Derek Elenbaas	1:42:10	0:17:41	0:39:40	0:44:49	14.37	0:08:37
13	Roger/Claire Steensma	1:47:17	0:18:14	0:40:36	0:48:27	14.04	0:09:19
14	Andrew Wiersma	1:47:17	0:12:09	0:40:33	0:54:35	14.06	0:10:30
15	Dan Wiley	1:51:48	0:13:57	0:39:34	0:58:17	14.41	0:11:12
16	Mike Johnson	1:52:15	0:12:00	0:45:45	0:54:30	12.46	0:10:29
17	Marv Elenbaas	1:52:24	0:15:59	0:43:04	0:53:21	13.24	0:10:16
18	Seth Kuiper	1:54:39	0:15:08	0:41:25	0:58:06	13.76	0:11:10
19	Grace/Haley/Lydia Elizabeth	1:56:27	0:17:54	0:45:53	0:52:40	12.42	0:10:08
20	Jenny Scott	1:56:43	0:17:23	0:48:52	0:50:28	11.66	0:09:42
21	Ben Elenbaas	2:05:50	0:15:32	0:51:20	0:58:58	11.10	0:11:20
22	Sarah Kuiper	2:09:32	0:17:08	0:51:17	1:01:07	11.11	0:11:45
23	Ken/Jan/Claude	2:10:36	0:19:50	0:57:45	0:53:01	9.87	0:10:12
Partial	Lindsay Elenbaas	N/A	0:15:13	1:00:26	N/A	9.43	N/A
Partial	Jim Verhoef	N/A	N/A	N/A	0:47:35	N/A	0:09:09
Partial	Erik Verhoef	N/A	N/A	N/A	0:48:00	N/A	0:09:14
Partial	Jay Schaaf	N/A	N/A	0:48:27	N/A	11.76	N/A

Name	Swim	Swim Pace (min/mi)
Randy Elenbaas	0:09:41	0:29:03
Abby/Matt/Dwayne	0:10:52	0:32:36
Dan/Terry Kett	0:11:11	0:33:33
Jason Schaaf	0:11:15	0:33:45
Mike Johnson	0:12:00	0:36:00
Andrew Wiersma	0:12:09	0:36:27
Paul Soper	0:12:25	0:37:15
Mark VanHarn	0:12:34	0:37:42
Steve Elenbaas	0:13:42	0:41:06
Dan Wiley	0:13:57	0:41:51
Dan Kuiper	0:14:05	0:42:15
Darren Schaaf	0:14:51	0:44:33
Dave Geschiere	0:15:01	0:45:03
Seth Kuiper	0:15:08	0:45:24
Lindsay Elenbaas	0:15:13	0:45:39
Ben Elenbaas	0:15:32	0:46:36
Marv Elenbaas	0:15:59	0:47:57
Stewart Aspinall	0:16:35	0:49:45
Sarah Kuiper	0:17:08	0:51:24
Jenny Scott	0:17:23	0:52:09
Derek Elenbaas	0:17:41	0:53:03
Grace/Haley/Lydia Elizabeth	0:17:54	0:53:42
Roger/Claire Steensma	0:18:14	0:54:42
Ken/Jan/Claude	0:19:50	0:59:30

Name	Bike	Bike Pace (mph)
Jason Schaaf	0:33:45	16.89
Randy Elenbaas	0:33:54	16.81
Stewart Aspinall	0:35:32	16.04
Dan Kuiper	0:35:34	16.03
Darren Schaaf	0:35:46	15.94
Dave Geschiere	0:37:31	15.19
Paul Soper	0:37:34	15.17
Dan/Terry Kett	0:38:21	14.86
Dan Wiley	0:39:34	14.41
Derek Elenbaas	0:39:40	14.37
Andrew Wiersma	0:40:33	14.06
Roger/Claire Steensma	0:40:36	14.04
Steve Elenbaas	0:40:54	13.94
Seth Kuiper	0:41:25	13.76
Abby/Matt/Dwayne	0:41:41	13.67
Mark VanHarn	0:42:02	13.56
Marv Elenbaas	0:43:04	13.24
Mike Johnson	0:45:45	12.46
Grace/Haley/Lydia Elizabeth	0:45:53	12.42
Jay Schaaf	0:48:27	11.76
Jenny Scott	0:48:52	11.66
Sarah Kuiper	0:51:17	11.11
Ben Elenbaas	0:51:20	11.10
Ken/Jan/Claude	0:57:45	9.87
Lindsay Elenbaas	1:00:26	9.43

Name	Run	Run Pace (min/mi)
Randy Elenbaas	0:38:57	0:07:29
Paul Soper	0:40:14	0:07:44
Dan/Terry Kett	0:41:16	0:07:56
Jason Schaaf	0:41:37	0:08:00
Abby/Matt/Dwayne	0:41:41	0:08:01
Stewart Aspinall	0:44:07	0:08:29
Derek Elenbaas	0:44:49	0:08:37
Mark VanHarn	0:45:16	0:08:42
Darren Schaaf	0:46:20	0:08:55
Steve Elenbaas	0:46:43	0:08:59
Jim Verhoef	0:47:35	0:09:09
Erik Verhoef	0:48:00	0:09:14
Roger/Claire Steensma	0:48:27	0:09:19
Dave Geschiere	0:49:14	0:09:28
Dan Kuiper	0:50:13	0:09:39
Jenny Scott	0:50:28	0:09:42
Grace/Haley/Lydia Elizabeth	0:52:40	0:10:08
Ken/Jan/Claude	0:53:01	0:10:12
Marv Elenbaas	0:53:21	0:10:16
Mike Johnson	0:54:30	0:10:29
Andrew Wiersma	0:54:35	0:10:30
Seth Kuiper	0:58:06	0:11:10
Dan Wiley	0:58:17	0:11:12
Ben Elenbaas	0:58:58	0:11:20
Sarah Kuiper	1:01:07	0:11:45

Comparison with Last Year	2007	2008	Time Diff	% Impr
Mike Johnson	2:34:19	1:52:15	0:42:04	37.5%
Derek Elenbaas	2:01:48	1:42:10	0:19:38	19.2%
Seth Kuiper	2:10:26	1:54:39	0:15:47	13.8%
Dave Geschiere	1:52:04	1:41:46	0:10:18	10.1%
Paul Soper	1:37:40	1:30:13	0:07:27	8.3%
Ken/Jan/Claude	2:19:26	2:10:36	0:08:50	6.8%
Grace/Haley/Lydia Elizabeth	2:02:56	1:56:27	0:06:29	5.6%
Dan Kuiper	1:44:17	1:39:52	0:04:25	4.4%
Sarah Kuiper	2:13:01	2:09:32	0:03:29	2.7%
Steve Elenbaas	1:43:12	1:41:19	0:01:53	1.9%
Jason Schaaf	1:27:25	1:26:37	0:00:48	0.9%
Randy Elenbaas	1:23:06	1:22:32	0:00:34	0.7%

4-Year Solo Finisher	2005	2006	2007	2008
Jason Schaaf	1:35:59	1:24:52	1:27:25	1:26:37
Randy Elenbaas	1:35:31	1:32:41	1:23:06	1:22:32
Paul Soper	1:40:41	1:33:17	1:37:40	1:30:13
Steve Elenbaas	2:02:41	1:53:09	1:43:12	1:41:19