Cannon-Wells Duathlon
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Comments: I've been having trouble with sore piriformus on both sides for quite a while and of course that started up within the first half mile. Nice. I just kept a steady quick (for me) pace and tried to ignore my aching azz. Ended up faster than expected. Guess those track workouts are paying off. What would you do differently?: Not much. I think I started out a little fast, but since this is such a short run, it wasn't a tragedy. Transition 1
Comments: Pretty slow. I couldn't get my glove back on since my hands were wet, so I had to go out on the bike without gloves. What would you do differently?: Don't do races where gloves are necessary. Bike
Comments: Yay for the bike! The good thing about being a slow runner is passing all of those people back on the bike. And I passed a lot. NO one got past me for the whole ride. One girl and one guy thought they would stay in front of me, but they didn't. The course is pretty flat, but not fast due to several turns and bad pavement. We started on the bike path for about a half mile which includes a slickassnot wooden bridge. Not the place to try to be a hero. After we got onto the roads, it was go time. Kind of a normal bike ride for me. Stayed aero in the big ring and just caught as many people as I could. I was caught a little off guard when I remembered that this was a short bike leg and I needed to eat my gel around mile 8. What would you do differently?: Could I have gone a bit harder? The eternal question. Transition 2
Comments: Did not leave the shoes on the bike because of pavement and wet. Cold fingers make it kind of tough to tie running shoes. What would you do differently?: See T1- Don't race in the cold. Run
Comments: I hadn't even gotten out of T2 when my butt started to hurt. Lovely. I had grabbed my mp3, so I just turned up the music to drown out the pain. The usual herd of people passed me and then I was by myself. I kept my eye on a girl up ahead who seemed like she was going my pace or slower. She was my carrot and I made it a mission to catch her. I finally got her around the 2 mile mark. I stepped up the pace to be sure I had left her and also passed a guy. Then with a half mile to go, I cranked the music and focused on running as hard as I could. For me, that also means singing along to the music which makes me look rather "special". Some odd looks by the two guys that passed me, but who cares. I ran the last mile in about 9 min to finish sub 30. What would you do differently?: Not a thing. My goal for this run was to push hard enough to want to fall over at the end. Accomplished. Post race
Warm down: I saw Jan at the finish and staggered over to her. We went to the 8.5m run finish to try to find Jeremy. Too bad we missed him finish. I figured that he would be done before I was. Sadly, I forgot to bring clean dry clothes for after the race. Standing around in my wet stinky outfit was not good. What limited your ability to perform faster: The temps were certainly a factor in today's race. I'm sure that I could have been faster with an extra 30 degrees. Still pretty happy with my placing though, esp the bike split. Event comments: 15/43 female (7th best bike female) Last updated: 2010-08-19 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 86/133
Age Group = F 40-49
Age Group Rank = 2/10
PB bagel. Coffee. Water. The usual. Jeremy's parents are in town, so we took their car. I waited inside until they packed my bike in the car.
Because of the massive flooding on Thursday, we had a couple of options to actually get to the race site. I was hoping not to have to deal with a detour and we got lucky.
Cold wet race morning. Lovely. I don't run well in this kind of weather, so I was pretty unhappy about it. Not much I could do but make sure I had proper clothes and just deal with it.
I took the bike out for about 5 min to check that everything was working and I had my gears right. Wow, it was cold. I decided to keep my tights and gloves for the first run and bike, then re-evaluate. Maybe that would be enough.