Shoreline Duathlon - Duathlon

Took top female split on this one

This was a great run for me so I wouldn't do much if anything different

Pretty smooth transition. I was in the elite wave and they had us positioned right at the run in and run out so I had to take my bike all the way through transition to the bike out. I would have preferred it to be the other way around.

This was a bad bike from the minute I got on the road. My legs were dead and I couldn't get them to go. I was pretty much by myself the whole way and I really could have used that carrot to catch in front of me. The roads were in pretty bad shape and I only was able to hold onto aero for a small part of the ride. I got cut off my construction traffic on one turn.

But I did take the corners probably the best I have all year which is a big improvement for me and I was very happy to get off the bike and back into my running shoes!

Found some motivation to keep myself going..also I was trying to save my legs for the run which is a trade off..see T2 for more about trade offs.

Damn I was tired from the bike. That was the other thing is that I couldn't catch my breath on the bike..very odd..anyways tried to get some energy as I went through to rack my bike.

Maybe picked up a couple of seconds moving faster to the rack but then my run out might not have been as strong. It is a trade off and I find that with a lot of points during dus and tris..it is not like a pure running race where I just run and maybe pace myself a little...with dus and tris I am still trying to figure out where to "pace" myself..some races I think I pace myself too much and others maybe not enough.

I think I had the 3rd fastest female split..I was nausous when I got out of T2 - it was so humid and there was a water station but not until after mile 1. I was just trying not to let the girl behind me catch me. Still not the worst split since it was upill for a lot of it.

Umm...puke if I could have to get the nauseua overwith and then continued along my merry way ;)

Drank 4 glasses of water after I was able to breathe again.


I finnished 3rd but 2 people behind me got time on me on the bike so I wound up in 5th and 1st in me AG - not too bad since I wasn't tapering and kind of went into this as a training race for the next 3 dus I have.

I definitly need to find a happy medium between bike training and run training. I am getting my groove back on my feet and now I need to find a way to get my bike up a little. I may not find that happy medium this season but I will for sure next!


For a first time event I think it was a great effort. Volunteers were everywhere on the run and bike course. Except for a coiuple of turns the directions given out by the volunteers were clear and easy to follow. I would recommend more water stations on the runs or at least place them differently. Other than that run right on time and was a very nice race.