David Pettigrew - Beaver Fever Du
I did the OSU Beaver Fever Duathlon today. It was my first ever duathlon and the final multi-sport race I will do this year. The coarse is a 5k road run, 20 mile bike ride (one big hill) and 5k cross-country run. We were really lucky and got great fall weather.
Overall Time 1:55:09
Road 5k - 23:16 7:37/mi, 161bpm
Bike - 1:05:47, 18.2mph, 179W, 84rpm, 142bpm, 0.92IF
XC 5k - 24:32, 7:35/mi, 167bpm
1st place 40-49AG
Overall, a solid day. My glutes and upper hamstrings seemed to be the limiter on the bike, aching whenever I tried to increase my speed. Not sure if that was the effect of running first, but I remember this from my last Olympic Tri and I knew I would need those muscles in good shape for the second run, so never pushed so hard that they hurt for any length of time.
Learnings
- a. Figure out the exact start place and time. b. Kids are distracting… I missed the start, and started 4 minutes after everyone. Doh!
- I went by feel on the bike and my numbers were around where I would have guessed and I focused more on being ready to run off the bike than being stuck chasing some preset power goal.
- I got an idea for what a good IF is for me at this distance.
- I took almost 5 minutes off my bike time and almost a minute of my XC run time of last year (when I did the tri). So a nice improvement and inline which how I feel. Next year I want to break 1 hour for the bike.
- I paced the bike well and ran really well off-bike as a result.