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EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON - Duathlon
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Comments: Always hard for me to find the right pace, tried to stay at a comfortable/hard pace the whole way, might have even backed off a little at the end. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Transition 1
Comments: Pretty uneventful, smooth but slow getting into the shoes once I was up to speed, need to continue working that aspect. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Bike
Comments: Wind was out of the north, 17mph with gusts to 35, meaning it was a brutal headwind on the first part of the course. Still managed to hold 15-17 mph while passing maybe a dozen or so riders, had no one pass me. Coming back was a lot more fun, stayed over 22 the whole way, spent a lot of time in the 24-26 range. Garmin says this was 8.9 miles, but I'm sticking with the official distance. ;) Official time is longer than Garmin, so we'll go with official. Edit: Don't know if anyone else is geeky enough to do this, but I downloaded the results into a spreadsheet to get my combined times for the first two segments. What I find is that I was in 63rd place after the first run, and moved up to 35th after the bike and the two transitions, meaning that I passed 18 people during gthe bike/transition. Of course, I had four pass me back in the second run, to finish 39th overall. What would you do differently?: Draft behind some big guy. Transition 2
Comments: Again, uneventful solid transition. What would you do differently?: Nothing Run
Comments: This was as hard as I could go, good to see it was only 14 seconds slower than the first run, thought I might have left to much on the bike. Pace on both runs was surprising as I haven't run a training mile much faster than 9 minutes in over a year. Passed a guy in front of the church, then heard him coming behind me after we turned on to the homestretch. Thought he was in my age group, so I went into an all-out sprint and held him off (barely). Poor guy pulled something doing that, as he was limping badly the rest of the morning. Turns out he was in the age group above mine. ;) What would you do differently?: Speed work in training? Post race
Warm down: Decided not to puke (I was tempted), then downed some gatorade and watched the rest come in. What limited your ability to perform faster: Quality training, though this was a good race. Never thought I would break an hour on this course with the wind. Event comments: Good little race, second year, but these guys have it down. Good course for the area, wind sucked but I did request a perpetual tailwind for next year. I was fourth in my AG, but too far behind (2-1/2 minutes) to have any podium envy. Did beat my friend for the first time. Last updated: 2005-12-24 12:00 AM
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 2006-02-11 1:40 PM |
Resident Curmudgeon  25290    The Road Back Gold member |  Subject: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON |
| 2006-02-11 2:40 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Master 2314 Gulf Shores, AL | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Great job bear, I wish I could do the 2nd run that close to the first one. |
| 2006-02-11 3:02 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Champion 8936  | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Nice race, John. Looks like you can haul it when you need to. |
| 2006-02-11 4:50 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Queen BTich 12411 , | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON CONGRATS on the finish! What a great job! You are so brave for racing in the cold! Bbbbrrrrrrrr...... |
| 2006-02-11 5:29 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Champion 5183 Wisconsin | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON wow, you are a pretty fast runner! I had no idea your prowess extended beyond the bike.
(and comet-- you call that cold? ha.) |
| 2006-02-11 6:24 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Expert 950 McKinney, TX | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Bear, you have my utmost respect and envy for such a kick-ass race! I can only hope to have such a good tri season as the du season you've got so far! Great Job!!!! |
| 2006-02-11 6:31 PM in reply to: #343693 |
| Extreme Veteran 313 | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Wow! Impressive work out there! You should be proud. Well done on deciding not to puke!
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| 2006-02-11 9:56 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Regular 101 Baton Rouge | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Man,
I was really hoping to meet up with you. Sorry. Awesome race, the wind sucked. Make sure we meet up at the next race we do. Again, nice race |
| 2006-02-14 1:44 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Elite 2863 | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON |
| 2006-02-14 2:04 PM in reply to: #345738 |
Resident Curmudgeon 25290 The Road Back Gold member | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON oipolloi - 2006-02-14 1:44 PM WOW Bear..........I didn't know you were that fast of a runner! Way to go bro! Why is everyone surprised at my run pace? I know I'm a fat, old, bald white guy, but still... I never do stand-alone races shorter than 10K, and the 5ks I've done in triathlons are usually in 90-degree/90% humidity conditions, not exactly conducive to speed. Edited by the bear 2006-02-14 2:13 PM |
| 2006-02-14 2:06 PM in reply to: #343693 |
molto veloce mama 9311 | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON wonderful pace on both the runs and the bike. wow. VERY fast! great job! |
| 2006-02-15 9:24 AM in reply to: #343693 |
| Expert 1085 New Orleans, LA | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Great race! You were really fast! And don't worry, you're not the only numbers geek around here. I've been known to crunch a few pre-mgm.5 |
| 2006-02-15 9:49 AM in reply to: #343693 |
| Master 1315 Shreveport, LA | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Great job John! I to was suprised at your run times, but that is because I thought you were coming off an injury. Keep up the good training. See you in June at Indian Creek - hopefully- if not then in August at RiverCities. |
| 2006-02-19 10:12 PM in reply to: #343693 |
Champion 19812 MA | Subject: RE: EVANGELINE OAK DUATHLON Nice race all around!! You paced yourself so well to come in with such similar times on both runs! So with your fast red bike do you have fast red running shoes too? |
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Coffee, cliff bar, shower, shave, throw rest of stuff in car and drive (40 minutes) to St. Martinville.
Left the house late, drive took longer than I thought, so I didn't have time to warm-up properly, just jogging between transition and the restroom as I got my stuff together.