Only a few weeks late...

On a wrap up from my first actual road race.  Technically it was a duatholon, which fits in closer to the tri-athalon family with rules and regulations and such.  Any way since I didn't feel like running a total of 8k, I hooked up with one of my co-workers Moxley, aka, Sinful a week before to do the run portion while I decided to ride my bicycle. 



Although we are both in decent shape for our respective events, we didn't put a whole lot of thought into actually preparing for this type of event.  He was a track runner by trade, one lap around and I think he hopped over things occasionally too, but that does not prepare him to just get up and decide to run a 5k to start and 3k to finish. 

I am a mountain biker by trade, just started getting into the roadie stuff, only because I needed a way to consistently get 50 miles in to prepare for the Battle of the Carolina's race. 

 Getting ready for battle

 Moxley took off like a bat out of hell for the first run which was a 5k.  He turned in a respectable sub 30 minute lap time.  Not to shabby for an out of practice sprinter.

I then took off for my 25k bike ride. 

I passed a lot of people.  But to be fair, I didn't run a 5k before hopping on the bike either.  On the other hand, I didn't warm up at all and was hurting the first couple of miles as I also made the mistake of riding like heck right out of the gate.  It was actually a very challenging course, a lot of steep short hills.  I have learned that I do not like my road bike gearing as I tended to not have enough gears going downhill which would have lessened my time.  Also, towards the end, I ended up running into traffic, no not other riders traffic, I mean vehicle traffic.  The cars couldn't pass the slower riders, and I couldn't pass the cars.  It was a vicious cycle. 

I came in fast and handed off the timing chip to Moxley who then cruised the last 3k run real quick. 

Turns out that we were the only entrants in the duo-male catagory so we took 1st place.  Even if there were other people, we still would have taken 1st.  After looking at the split, I took 30th fastest bike time out of over 100 people.  I probably would have broken top 25 if I hadnt hit all the cars on the way back.  Not to shabby for a mountain bike guy.

Maybe next year I will do the race with the burrower in the duo-category again.  She will run, I will ride, and then we drink.  Sounds like a plan.  Anyone else want to give us a run for the money next year?