I did it and I survived. There were a lot of hills, I hate hills and I'm not too good at hills. The first mile and half run was nice, through the woods ramble, although there were a lot of puddles and mud, so my feet were soaked within a half mile, but at least it stopped raining. The last half mile was hills on the run. But I felt good. The bike was nice, it was really pretty country and the leaves are starting to change, it was a beautiful view of the rolling hills. It wasn't beautiful on my legs or heart going up those hills tho. Most of the roads we were on were back roads that were very quiet, typical of an early fall Sunday morning. There was one road that we had to go on for a few miles that did have some traffic, and these people did not slow down or move over for bikers, even though it was a passing zone and there was no one coming in the other direction. At one point a couple of SUV's went by me, going about 60 miles an hour, didn't pull over and I had a guardrail on my right. All I could think of was they were going to clip me and send me flying through the air, tumbling over guardrail and down the embankment, similar to Verbrugghe in the Tour de France this summer. The last leg was another 2 mile loop run. About half way through I got a horrible stitch in my side and had to walk, that was pretty demoralizing, I haven't walked in a race in years. But I got a nice technical t-shirt :)
I did the Super Sprint which is Run Bike Run, there was also Formula 1, which is Run Bike Run Bike Run. The guy that won the F1 came in at the same time I did! I saw them out on the Bike course, they were FLYING.
I'm extremely stiff tonight, the hills really killed me. I'm going to go do some yoga and see if I can't get stretched out.
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Okay so I'm a bad friend and haven't commented in forever! Your duathlon sounds awesome. I'm jealous. Mostly because I've not run or ridden in 3 weeks or so. It sucks. The laziness is out of control. Still training for something else, or are you winterized now? It's only 34 degrees here today, can you believe that? I had to take some friends to the airport this morning at 5 and I thought I'd freeze to death before the car warmed up. Ugh.
Hope you're doing good. :)
"I'm extremely stiff tonight, the hills really killed me. I'm going to go do some yoga and see if I can't get stretched out."
One way to avoid that is to actually not run Decathlons, marathons, biathlons, pentathlons, triathlons, heptathlons or duathlons!
Stick to watching hokey games on TV, and maybe once a year, check on the Tour de France.
Believe me, no more pain! ;)
Matt
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