When you’re organizing a race in which 1,000 competitors are starting with a swim leg, it’s impossible to start them all at [...]]]> Padra Meyer of Des Plaines, IL was the first female to cross the finish line in Saturday’s Door County Triathlon sprint distance event. She even broke the tape, but she didn’t win the race.

When you’re organizing a race in which 1,000 competitors are starting with a swim leg, it’s impossible to start them all at once, so Race Director Sean Ryan starts the athletes in waves. Most athletes are organized by age group, but top-level competitors are asked to identify themselves to start in the “elite wave,” the first ones to enter the water. Since times are kept with a timing chip that gets activated when the athlete passes through the starting gate and stopped when they cross the finish line, participants in later waves still get accurate times. That way, race officials are assured that the first person crossing the finish line is the winner. Unless, of course, an elite athlete doesn’t start with the elite wave.
Find out why Meyer didn’t win in the Peninsula Pulse’s Daily Dose of Door blog.

“I forgot I even had it on sometimes,” he explains. [...]]]> “Can I take off my helmet now,” six-year-old Kristofer Lecy pleads with his dad in the driveway of his grandparent’s Fish Creek home. He’s obviously excited to get out from beneath the shell that had sat on his head for most of the past six days.

“I forgot I even had it on sometimes,” he explains. “I kept wearing it into restaurants.”
Kristofer could be forgiven if he was whining, but he wasn’t. He had just completed a 317-mile bike ride with his sisters Lauren, 13, Julia, 10, and parents Mark and Deana Lecy. Most families try to do something special with their kids over summer vacation, but few would embark on a six-day, five-night trek on two tandem bicycles from Indiana to Door County.
Read the rest of this Door County biking story from the Peninsula Pulse’s Daily Dose of Door blog that comes in their daily email service, Pulse Picks.

“Team West Bend” took first in the relay, finishing in 4:58:48, far ahead of second place [...]]]> Carolyn Smith won Door County’s Fall 50 on Oct. 24 with a time of 6:19:59. Second-place finisher John Storkamp finished a little under 10 minutes behind her with a time of 6:29:08. Kurt Rompot was third, and Shawn Callahan fourth.

“Team West Bend” took first in the relay, finishing in 4:58:48, far ahead of second place “Team 12 1″ (5:25:53). Team “It’s Okay” finished third at 5:37:54.

In the pairs division, the team named “Running 50 Miles = Honeymoon” took first in 5:25:30, “Slow Moving Vehicles” was second in 5:50:04, and “Falling Forward” was third in a time of 6:06:31.