Big Sky Duathlon - Duathlon

This was a really good run for me. Didn't wear my Garmin, cuz I didn't want to know my pace. Went out hard and just stayed with it. This is the fastest pace I've ever done in a race. I've just recently got back on the track so I think with more speedwork I should be able to go a bit quicker soon.

Stayed closer to the lead pack, and not depend so heavily on pulling them back on the bike.

I'm fine with these transitions

Nothing really. Transitions went according to plan

If the wind wasn't such a bear this would've have been a fast course. I was averaging about 29 - 30 mph and got to the turn around and was only doing 20 21 mph. I'm still happy though cuz even with the conditions I was knocking on the door of 25 mph average. There was a lot of drafting going on and I kept trying to get away from a group 3 - 4 riders with a couple of Elites in it. Finally I yelled to one of them who was sitting on my wheel "Just freaking pass". He said he couldn't and I told him to get the heck off my wheel then. I used more vulgar terms than that though. Overall after looking at my Normalized Power Output I'm happy with this ride. I think I could have went a bit harder, but my second run would've suffered more. I rode at about 90% of Functional Threshold Power. Which for this distance is about right where I needed to be.

Like the first I'm pretty happy with this.

Nothing

The second run hurt, but I feel I ran to my ability. Had I known Dime was gonna get me in the overall by 15 seconds I may have been able to dig a little deeper, but it would've hurt worse than salt in a paper cut.

Dig! Dig! Dig!

Jogged out with Dime, Dills, and Fliegelman. Met Meg and ran with her for a bit, and finished up the jog with the guys.


I've really got my eyes set on Lake Stevens right now, so I've been neglecting short course stuff. Gearing more towards going long I think hurts your short course speed to a degree. Overall I'm happy with my performance and I think it'll pay off next month.


Like I said earlier I'm four weeks out from one of my A-races of the year. I think if I geared my training more toward short course I could go a lot faster. I've only got one more hard block of training before Lake Stevens so these short races I'm treating as speed days. I think my form right now is pretty good and quite a bit better than this time last year. Planning on doing one more sprint race and starting my taper. June! What a great freaking month!