Dunmow Duathlon - Sat 6th March 10
Mon 08 Mar 2010
Dunmow Tri Duathlon – Hatfield Forest - Saturday 6th March 2010
After a winter season of running, including four cross country races this was my second duathlon of 2010 and my last run before I went back to ‘bike only’ mode.
The event took place in Hatfield Forest at the same location where the club run occasionally goes on Sunday’s.
I got my number, stacked the bike and did a quick warm up.
The 5k run course was off road, flat over muddy fields so cross country shoes were called for. After 5 minutes I settled into about 15th place. In the last section, although I didn’t slow down some other runners had paced themselves and they went past pushing me out of the top 20.
Onto the bike and a 24k (15 miles) road course looping around the forest. I had a good ride, quickly catching about ten of the faster runners. At half distance there was no-one I could see in front of me, the elite triathletes who could both run and ride a bike had opened up a big gap.
Back to transition for the second run and here is where it gets painful. Run to bike is ok but bike to run is like running trough treacle. I struggled on expecting a few of the quicker runners to catch me but in the event only one did and I came home in 11th place. Not bad for a non runner, 'best of the rest' after the good athletes.
Result
Ful result from tri247 here
Finish time | Overall position | Run 1 Leg Time | T1 Leg Time | Cycle Leg Time | T2 Leg Time | Run 2 Leg Time |
01:35:54 | 11 | 00:23:05 | 00:01:05 | 00:45:39 | 00:01:11 | 00:24:51 |