triathlon cascades de drummondville - DuathlonStandard

was not prepared for a du, so was happy to see my time of that 5K wich is a PR for me...legs were not happy to do a bike ride after the 5K and started to protest.

nothing, the slow start approach served me well. I didn't have to walk and was keeping my form.

practice with legs full of lactic acid

the Cytomax i made was too concentrated, i had to stop drinking cauz it was messing up with my stomach. My legs were already beaten from the run, not used to bike after a run ;)

bike more,take nuun insted of Cytomax

Some guy made a mistake and put his bike on the ladies rack and in my spot!!! maybe he liked my shoes but found out they weren't his size ;)
lost some time trying to figure out what to do. Some nice volonteers pushed away his bike so i could fit mine.

try to practice the coasting and getting on/off the bike while the legs are stiff ...why was i so good as a kid and now so unable to do it?!

at this point, i was just trying to finish the thing so it was the walk/run way to the finish. I was able to kinda run the last 200m but no surge of energy like usual...so i really gave it my all this time ;)

nothing...didn't have nothing left in the legs

walked a bit and talked with team mates. ate a bit...things got bad about an hour after: Huge headache,nausea, intolerance to light and dizzyness made the trip to get to a family event hell. I was afraid that i would mess that event by having to go lie down or worse...it was a close call.


Doing a ill prepared duathon in the midday heat is not for me. I am glad to see that i have now the fitness to do it, but it took all i had. 2 years ago i would have had to drop out. I will maybe try a du at the start of the season in early may but not in august if i can help it! Kudos to all the duathletes, you are tough! I managed a 5K PR wich is great so a good experience to learn more about myself and the sport!