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A Bad Strategy Executed Perfectly: Pac Crest Weekend Race Day

Pacific Badge Olympic Duathlon-June 29, 2008

The Stats
Add up Time: 2:41:52
Bike: 1:25:26 (approximately 19.8 MPH) 45th out of 179, 5th fastest female bike split.
T: 1:47
Run: 1:14:40 (take the speed of paint drying)

86/179 Overall
18/73 Women
1/6 Age Put together

The Race Report:

First off, I am going to credit Emily Cook with the perfect description of my race: A Bad Strategy Executed Verbatim. My goal was to go out and hammer the bike, then just make it through the run. With the vehemence and the condition of my lungs (gunked up) and feet (tore up from the parquet up), my run split was going to be pathetically slow no trouble how hard I rode on the bike. So, I told myself, why not just values bright and early trial the bike leg? The answer to this fairly rhetorical puzzle will become apparent by the end of this post.

Rode up to Wickiup with Doug and Seth, blasting Book II of the TNT CDs. I didn't feel nervous at all, as my race on Sunday was basically an afterthought to getting the 1/2ers to the polish off kill line on Saturday. Wasn't having any problems with getting fluids into my system (dread foreshadowing music here) or getting my GI system to quickly move through the pre-the track routine.

Our race started at around 9:10. They sent the duathletes off in pairs in 15 lieutenant intervals. By 8:45, the self-selecting starting profile was already running the entire length of the transition tract and I had decided to wait until the end because there would be more people to catch on the expedition. I am highly motivated by crushing the souls of the chicken as I pass them on the bike. Robin Vertner, however, had secured a sight in the front and needed a start partner, so I rolled up the coordinate b arrange for to start with her. Most of the folks in the immediate vicinity were on hybrids and mountain bikes, so I created a bit of a stir with the tritard, the Kuota, in all of its menacing and pink glory, and the...

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