Falls Duathlon - Duathlon

At the start line, I left Jeremy at the front and found my way to the back. I wanted a steady pace, somewhere around 10 mpm if possible. We started and I felt good for the first few minutes. Then I started feeling kind of sick around 10 min. Not sure what was going on, I kept going. Several times I thought I was going to need to find a portajohn. Really bad. Luckily (?) there were none right on the course, so I kept going. I made a deal with myself that I'd go ride the bike and then reassess. There were potties near the bike in so that was my plan. I finished the run in pain and quite unhappy.

Not sure. I have no idea what was going on. Wish I did know.

I really don't think I quite knew what to do until I got my helmet on. The first run and part of T1 were kind of fumbling around. I managed to get on the bike and then the race began.

Nothing really.

I go to the bike and it was on! Started passing people immediately out of T1. I actually counted this time; I passed 60 people and only 1 passed me. I was in the back of the field, so it was mostly mtn bikes, cruisers and old road bikes. The wind going out was helping quite a bit and I was goind well over 20 most of the time. One stretch I was holding 29-29. That was pretty fun. Then the turnaround came and the wind hit me like a wall. Much different race coming back in. I still passed a ton of people, but this time it was road bikes. Around mile 12 I felt someone on my tail and looked back. Some dude was just sitting there. Looked again. Still there. He told me he didn't have the legs to pass me and was going to stay. I told him to enjoy the draft. And he did. I knew he'd pass me on the run, so I didn't have to worry about it.

Not much. Maybe I could have hammered a bit more on the easy stretches to get that average up some.

Good T2. Running on gravel with socks was not fun, but otherwise OK.

Nothing.

I started off and felt OK, so no need for the potty. Yay! Soon people were passing me back, but that's cool. The guy who was on my wheel caught me pretty quickly and we ran together for the rest of the way. His pace was a bit faster than I was comfortable with, but that's a good thing. He pulled me around the run course and I'm thankful for that. He dropped me at the finish, but whatever.

Could I have gone harder? Who knows.

Water, walk it out and find some food. Stretched a bit.


The wind and my sucky running.


Nice job, Final Stretch! Lots of giveaway prizes at the end. I got a cool new hat and Mario won the wetsuit. Love door prizes! One complaint. We need post-race food that doesn't include meat. I know, it's kind of picky, but my relish and mustard on a hotdog bun wasn't great. A cookie would have been nice. Nice showing for TriRochester today too!
AG rankings aren't posted yet. Will get them added when I can.