Doylestown Duathlon - Duathlon

If you were racing you probably would have identified me as the dope that had his shoe laces untied! My right one got untied ten seconds into the run and I didn't stop so I had to deal with that! Fought the urge to go out too hard on the first run since this was only my second duathlon ever. I ran hard and controlled. The weather was pretty miserable and all I could really think of was the long long bike ahead.

Run a little harder

Since I wasn't racing this I took my time in transitions and this is where I lost most of my time. I was real cold and didn't want to forget anything. I could have easily done this in half the time, but I wasn't in much of a rush and I'm not too upset with the awful time.

Nothing.

The conditions were pretty poor so I decided ealry in the ride I was going to focus on safe but hard riding. I did a good job on the climbs and recovered on the flats. The course was really nice and if it wasn't raining it was definitely a fast course. The fasties went 25 MPH on this.

The volunteers were awesome directing traffic and giving encouragement. It was almost comical to be racing in these conditions so I just tried to have a good attitude. The course was actually 21 miles instead of 18.6 so it was more than just a regular sprint.

My goal is to race in the 20's, but considering the conditions today that was not realistic. Happy with the effort I gave escpecially considering I couldn't feel my hands of legs coming into T2.

Just like before I wasn't too freaked about transitions so I took my time again. If I didn't lollygag on both transitions I could have saved about three minutes and placed much higher, but I wasn't racing and I'm okay with my results here.

Nothing.

It took me about two miles to get feeling back in my legs so I didn't push this run either. I did have a nice negative split which made me feel good. I could have been a lot faster, but I was content where I was at. This was actually my best leg of the race and it was with much less effort than any of the others! I was glad to be done!

Push harder in a race atmosphere.

I took off all my wet clothes and got some dry stuff on. I hurried out thinking I didn't win any awards because I saw kids in my age group finish before me. Turns out they were relay runners so I actually won my age group! I will have to pick up my prize sometime else!


The 20 MPH winds? The cold rain? No incentive to race?


Organization was tops! Everything was on time and volunteers were great! This was a fun and memorable race. There were 14 DNF's this year which is a pretty high number for the size of the race. Hopefully next year the conditions will favor a little faster race because this was a fast and fun course!