Rip van Winkle Duathlon - DuathlonStandard

Started at the back of the pack, kind of got boxed in a little but managed to hit stride in the first 500 feet. Felt a little sluggish, but I guess it was a decent pace. Passed a couple guys on the hill but couldn't catch Dylan.

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Decent enough. Passed Dylan at the rack while he was putting on his shoes. Rode on top of shoes up a small hill, got into the shoes in between the speed bumps on the way out.

Decent breeze against us while going out, averaged somewhere around 19.5 going out and closer to 21 coming back. Never got passed while passing about a dozen or so, probably a testament to my crappy run. Passed one of my "rivals" from the age group above mine on the bike without knowing it, probably right before we got back.

I passed 19 people on the bike, more than a third of the field. Probably due more to a slow run than a great bike split.

Pretty quick, short run with bike, took of helmet, put on shoes and gone. Hit the "stop" button on the Garmin instead of the "lap" button.

Got out of transition a little ahead of said 'rival" but couldn't get my legs under me, letting him get about a 20-yard lead on me. Stayed like that the whoe way, if I would speed up, so would he. Turned out he was trying to catch his "rival," aomeone actually in his AG.

31st overall on the first run, 16th on the second. Lot of folks forgot we had to run twice.

Stood around and drank gatorade.


Training, especially lack of time on the bike, and big belly.




Age groups were small as overall attendance was light. Angel got 2 in her AG (out of 2), Dylan got 1st (out of 1), and I got 1st (out of 2).

Everything went well despite the threatening weather, roads were fairly dry with some wet/muddy spots. Have to say we did a good job today!

Great venue, not going to find any more interesting run courses than what we have here. Crowds were small due to the weather, but the ones that showed seemed to have a good time and certainly ate well after.