Here are a few pictures from the Birkie. I was a little bit slower than last year, but was still happy with my time. Considering I trained on average less than 3 hours a week for a roughly 3 hour race and since I had to stop for a few minutes to put a contact lens back into my eyeball my time was very comparable to last year.
Richard and Rachel are both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Richard is finishing his PhD in solid state physics and Rachel has just begun her dissertation for her PhD in French literature. We have been married for 2 years and just welcomed our first baby: Christian Ira Hatch!