Minneapolis Duathlon - Duathlon

Started in a middle wave, so there were many people to zig-zag around on the course.

Try to register earlier and hopefully get in one of the first five waves to reduce traffic/course congestion.

Nothing

Rough road, rough wind

Drink more - I should have killed the bottle with a mile to go - instead I still had about 1/4 of it left. Bad mistake on a warm race.

A couple of people (volunteers? spectators?!) were standing in transition - in the middle of the area I needed to run my bike through to get to my rack. Aside from that, the heat and humidity were beginning to take their toll on me. Lastly, the gusty wind made it hard to rack the bike - it took three attempts to get it to stay put.

Yell at the people to get the eff out of the way long before I got to them and stopped. Grab my spare bottle and drink a bit from it and dump the rest of its cold contents all over me to bring my temperature down.

Terrible run. I started suffering from heat cramps almost immediately.

Dump more cold water on myself/drink more in trans to dodge (hopefully) the cramps that came later.

Walked around, ate bananas, and drank some water / energy drink.


The heat and humidity and wind...ugh


I put my rank according to the number that started. About half that total finished due to the fact the organizers shut down trans at some point due to the heat. Given the conditions, even though it was just a 5K course, a second water stop probably would have been a good idea - not necessarily for drinking, but just to dump over myself to cool down.