Duathlon Ditty

Newmarket Duathlon! Well that was one way to start of a Sunday afternoon! Its a was a bit of a late start for a race, I'm used slightly earlier starts so I thought a 12.00 start would be nice although you do have a bit of waiting around which doesn't aid the nerves I went to the loo about 4 times. As I left the house the rain started and we had some pretty heavy showers right before the start. The bike course was going to be slippy! Not good I took the carbon bike with dry tires oh well no fast cornering. But as the gun went off the sun came out and there was a bit of heat in it. The first run in 2 laps of the playing field then up the hill nice and on to the tracks my time for the first run was 23.38 in 2012 I was 24:42. The bike course is 3 loops of a rather nasty hilly head windy course you just got to love the road had dried up nicely so it wasn't too slippy just hilly. I hadn't been on my bike since we got the keys to the house so it was tough. I just kinda when out did my best and hung on my time was 57:10 in 2012 it was 59:2. The last run is two laps of the same course it starts out nice along some nice tracks along fields through a little wood then a nice climb up the hill auch. My legs were like jelly when I first got off the bike they felt really weird the fist loop was tough and honestly I looked and felt rubbish but once I got my stride I actually felt ok on the 2nd loop and my time was 26:15 and my time in 2012 was 26:34. I didn't quiet do as well as I would have liked but I did ok I got a rather nice goody bag and a medal for my kitchen was so its all good. I'm tired now. If I had actually trained for it I might have done even better who knows.