Dousman Duathlon - DuathlonStandard

With a little more warm up I think I could have been in the 5 mive+ minute range for mile splits.

More warm-up

The rain got me off track a little, but I suck at transitions anyway. Not used to putting on a rain jacket for the bike.

Get up a little earlier and do an anti-rain dance to make the clouds go away.

My bike was really bad. I had to stop after a block and get my jacket on right. Went through my water quicker than I thought that I would. I guess I should have expected a bad time and that is what I got.

Not fight off a rally bad infection due to a cracked wisdom tooth and end up getting three teeth pulled 2 weeks before the race. It got pretty bad about a month before this race to the point I couldn't eat. The couple forms of antibiotics killed all of my training for some time before this event.

I guess this was alright, but I should be under a minute.

Work on my transitions

I never got passed on either of the runs and I think I let up a little on this last one. I really needed to push myself a little harder when there is no one to challenge me. By the way, this usually isn't a problem as people are always passing me.

Push myself a little harder.

Find a table and woof down some pancakes.


I think the infection really hurt me. I felt really sluggish out on the bike and my time showed it. My training has been very poor all year. This is my first full year in the sport of triathlons and duathlons, and I just kinda rode the bike a couple times a week, ran at the same pace all the time, and swimed when I had some time. I need to become more stuctured and learn to do some intervals.


The rain sucked a big one, but hurricane Ike had to go somewhere. Not too much anyone can do about that. I really like the breakfast afterwords. I wish more races had this, instead of some of the crap they have. I will do it next year for this reason alone. Only one bad thing to say. The website said we got a tech-t. What we got was a cotton long sleeve. Oh-well, I am happy that I got anything I guess.