Subject: RE: Gear West Duathlon : Official Thread"That guy" in the Red Saxo Bank shirt is 45 year old John Deering. I spoke with him shortly after the race and he still had mud in his teeth! Nice guy and fine athlete. He and I and most of the other old dudes started in the last wave. He got to T1 ahead of me. I got to T2 ahead of him. Sure enough he passed me on the last run and kept opening the gap, but I had my eye on the red shirt thinking maybe I could reel him back (not to be). As we were going around the last lap of the track, I expected him to be about a half lap ahead of me and I again looked for the red shirt. Where was he? I couldn't find the red shirt. Did he suddenly surge and really open the gap? Did he forget the lap around the track? No, there he was, not so much in red anymore as brown/black. He wasn't the only one who went horizontal in the mud. I saw the guy 10 yds in front of me fall. He picked a spot that was more wet than muddy though. Yeah, it was a fun race. Anyone else have more stories? |