Congrats to all the first timers !! I had planned to either go from Duathlons to Triathlons this year, or move up to Oly distance Duo's this year, since I haven't been swimming since last Sept., Oly Duo's it is
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I've been lurking for a long time, but just now posting for the first time.
Did anyone use a Garmin on the course, particularily the duathlon to get a read on the overall run distances? The reason I ask is for trying to figure out my pace during the runs, and use them to set an approx. pace for the Oly distance this year, I was gonna use the splits in this race to judge my pace for Deer Creek Duathlon Olympic distance. Since the splits were lost for this race, and not posted, I tried to reconstruct my times based on my bike computer and my Garmin
(used for the runs
), but things aren't adding up. Did anyone else use a GPS to measure the runs on the Duathlon, and if so - were the runs 2 miles and 3.1? If the course was this long, I had some awesome run times
(for me
), to go along with my much improved bike times.... Woo-Hoo.
Things just aren't adding up, but it could be I didn't stop / start the watch right
( I get in a funk during races
)
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Again, I realize things happen, but if someone did measure the course, it may help me figure out my times, and better decide on a pace for Deer Creek. I know for sure I stopped my timer about a minute late, and there's no way I ran 36 mins. for 5.1 miles, unless I failed miserably operating my watch
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Again, congrats to all, it was a fun race. I wish I would jumped in the lake afterwards.....