Wave 2 “winner” went a 1:48:44min last year and I went a 1:51 while crashing on Sager in wave 2, this was right at about 9-10min back from the overall winner.
I went into wave 2 (as opposed to wave 1) last year as my fitness was down and I wanted a more “chill” ride and holy crap was that the wrong choice. We had to pick off a lot of traffic and it was sketch city the entire time.