Well this morning’s Jekyll and Hyde Duathlon\u00a0went well. It was a chilly start\u00a0with a few spots of drizzle.\u00a0 142 people started and 137 finished.<\/p>\n
The first run leg set off with a blistering pace and I was quickly relegated to the rear half of the field, finishing ranked\u00a098th. Run1 consisted of two laps around the Serpentine for a total distance of 8km. My HR was around 90-94% max the whole way.<\/p>\n
The bike kicked off well – it was 6 (that’s 1 2 3 4 5 6!!!) laps totalling 19.5km. I managed to keep up a good pace along the way,\u00a0and overtaking more people than were overtaking me, while counting the laps. I got to lap 6 or was it only lap 5?\u00a0So I\u00a0wasn’t sure if I skipped lap 5. So not wanting to be disqualified I threw in another lap. Based on the splits and the fact I dropped to 120th rank in the bike section I’m convinced I did 7 laps \ud83d\ude41 What an idiot!! (If I remove roughly 1\/7th of the bike leg – about 6 mins I’d have ranked about 80th in the bike and then I’d have jumped to around 87th or so over all). The only really scary moment of the bike was on lap 1 went I went into the turn into North Carriage Drive slightly fast and nearly lost it… The front tyre\u00a0started skidding\u00a0out from under me, but somehow managed to pull it back under control- that corner got much respect after that! Again HR was up at around 90% of max.<\/p>\n
Anyway the second run leg was painful with a couple of twinges of cramp in the calves which I managed to trundle through and was ranked\u00a095th on the run2 time\u00a0.\u00a0 HR was again hovering around 90% of max, but I did see it dip down to 88%.<\/p>\n
Overall I posted a time of 1h41:27 with an overall rank of 109.\u00a0 My max HR was high, very high, and I’m surprised I could sustain it for as long as I did… Anyway, my legs are achy now and I’m feeling a lot more knackered than last weekend!<\/p>\n
Lessons learnt:<\/p>\n
\u00a0* The foot pod pace was totally off. The bike speedo didn’t work or didn’t link with the bike. I bumped the stop watch so don’t have any HR data past the first lap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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