March Madness Duathlon - DuathlonStandard

took a little while to navigate the folks who should not have started at the front. it wasnt a marathon-sized crowd, but something like 650 on a narrow run course. I felt like I put out a good effort, but it had me questioning my NJ marathon goal time (doesn't everything?) but I stopped beating myself up when I remembered that yesterday's training was an 18 miler at a decent pace.

Nothing. Pretty solid pace with the hills.

I botched this T1 some, but that's what early season races are for :-). I spent a good 30 seconds trying to clasp. the bike helmet with my gloves on before I filnally just took them off. Other than that clothing choices were pretty good. ran with bike jacket, sunglasses and a windbreaker scull cap, so this should have been pretty simple - shoes, helmet, go.

take off the gloves at the end of the run.

I rode the new road bike telling myself that the couple of downhill turns were technical. that turned out not to be true enough, but I wanted to play with the new toy and I didn't trust my uphill riding with the 11-23 cassette currently on the tri-bike race wheels. I coulda just changed the cassette out but I was glad to have the brakes handy as the park was open to all the usual Sunday traffic.

My only real issue was not having the umph to really push it on the bike. but I had some fun trading places back and forth with 2 guys on the second loop. They both beat me but I caught them on the run :-)

You know, ride more, more faster. Next week starts group riding with the fast folk at bikeway.

Nothing to speak of.

Good run and I gave it what I had left. about :20/mile slower than round one, but a solid run for me. I finished with the lungs screaming.

Nothing.

not biking forthe last 2 months. but im sure thats true for a lot of folks that showed up. I'm looking forward to doing this course again in October.