There was a lot of confusion immediately before the race about the shirt/no shirt policy.  Tony claimed that the rules had clearly been established on the forum and that shirts were required so with that issue cleared up, we gathered on the beach for the start.  The race began with a short run across the beach.  Its too bad nobody had a video camera for that portion.  Bobby got off to a quick start followed by Pat Dwyer, Christopher and me.  Christopher was kind enough to stop and let everyone into the water ahead of him.  I figured if I got into the water quickly, I could avoid the crowd and have a decent swim and set myself up nicely for the run.  However, I found out the hard way that swimming without a wetsuit is a lot harder than swimming with a wetsuit and before I got to the red buoy, Brian, Greg, Andy and Lisa went zooming past me in a big pack.  To add insult to injury each one of them managed to punch, kick or knock me around as they went by.  I grabbed on to the back of that pack and swam the rest of the swim portion.

T1 was a blur and I had my shoes on quickly and was in a half decent position to start the run.  Greg was ahead of me, Bobby ahead of him and Pat Dwyer was probably done with the entire race by this point.  I got to the first stop sign with no change in position and as I turned back, Pat Ryan was flying down lake street chasing after all of the folks who got out of the water ahead of him.

Heading back towards farm pond, I saw David, Lisa and Brian all going at a pretty good clip.  By the time we were back in front of the Farm Pond gate, Pat Ryan had caught me and I had caught Greg (Unfortunately for me, this would not be the last I saw of Greg).  Bobby and Pat Dwyer were still gaining ground on all of us.  The long uphill to the second stop sign was painful and as I turned around to head back to the pond for the last time, Greg and David seemed to be closing the gap on me.  We got into T2 in the order:  Pat Dwyer, Bobby, Pat Ryan, and me.  Greg and David were behind me, but I am not sure in what order.  I got into the water behind Bobby  but he was too far ahead to catch.  When I got to the red buoy, I felt someone touching my feet and knew that Greg was drafting on me, waiting to make his move.  As we turned the last corner, he picked up the pace and passed me.  As I was approaching the shore, I could see Bobby running across the beach to the finish (Pat Dwyer already done).  Greg got out of the water ahead of me and ran to a third place finish.  I came in a few seconds behind him.

About a minute later, David got out of the water and ran to the finish line and then Brian Dwyer and Lisa came out of the water and Brian outran Lisa on the beach to beat her by 2 seconds, to just narrowly avoid being "chicked". 

The remaining athletes (other than Dean who was racing for the first time post-injury) came in fairly close together following Lisa.  Charlie ran the beach portion with his Pull Buoy between his leg so he should get a couple of seconds credit for that.

Brian and Greg swam out to escort Dean in who finished in a time of 37 minutes and few seconds. 

A bunch of team members weren't there on Saturday because of other committments:  Marla, Alex, Jocelyn, Juliette, Beth, Eric, etc.  It will be fun to watch them do the race in the next week or so.  The morning swim group moved the red buoy out a couple hundred yards this morning to make it more challanging for them.