The trigger has been pulled on my next race. I always had planned to do the Cornwall Triathlon - I was just not sure as to what capacity: Sprint, Oly or Relay participant.

After a couple of good hard sprint duathlons, I think I've decided that I have enough gas in the tank left for an all-out Olympic assault.

Checking (stalking) the registration list, and it looks like there will be some fierce M30-39 competition in the 2:30:00 to 2:40:00 range. I'd love to be close to 2:30, but I'm not sure the bike course on this race favours me for that.

Prediction: 2:35:00.

Better get some swimming in! Only 2-1/2 weeks to go.

The Cornwall Multisport Club was on TV on Friday. If you look carefully, you can see me hiding in the background.



I also rode Joe's Guru Crono, a bike he won, for designing the new logo for Slowtwitch. It was shockingly light. And, it really did feel like I was being pulled on a rope.

Last night, was the multi-sport club's duathlon training night. This was the first time this year that I was able to get out, and it was great to be back 'at it'. When we lived in Ottawa, I was doing a sprint duathlon every week, and I loved it.

The club du is slightly different format: 2K Run, 15K Bike, 4K Run. Overall the course is somewhat easier, and the pavement is nice and silky smooth. In Ottawa, the runs were 3K each (actually a tad shorter), and psychologically, it was always easier to run faster on the 2nd run. 4K is a tougher run back, but better practice for Sprint Tris (usually 5K run).

I did pretty good considering, I hadn't done much biking since the Riverkeeper triathlon.

Weather was hot but not too muggy. A little wind on the bike out.

Run 1: 2K 8:33 (4:17 pace)
T1: 0:37
Bike: 15K 26.59 (33.3 km/hr)
T2: 0:29
Run 2: 4K 18:38 (4:40 pace)
Total Time: 0:55:17.58

The benchmark has been set. Will he go sub-53 this year????

Labels: duathlon

I'm contemplating something really big. It would include 4km of swimming and 42.2km of running; but no cycling.



Contemplating, as in there's a greater than 5% chance that it might go ahead.