The distances were 2mi run, 9.5mi bike (which was actually 10 miles), and 3mi run. Well, as soon as I started doing some strides for warm up, my legs remembered the hard effort from yesterday... But the first run along the Long Branch boardwalk was good, 15:23, which is actually a one second improvement over the last (and only) time I did this race, in 2008.
As soon as I got on the bike, I had the feeling that nobody else was racing. People were so slow that I was passing 4-5 at a time. And it went like this for miles. Must've passed at least 30-40 people. Probably those fast runners who didn't plan for the bike part... I was jumping from rider to rider, and I guess I got a lot of drafting as I was moving wheel to wheel. It was fun, even with the very twisted course, with many sharp turns. Nobody passed me until about the final mile, when two guys went past. The bike average was 19.1mph.
The second run was a bit harder, but never felt very tired, I just kept a constant pace, with a faster final mile. I did 23:36, so at 7:52/mi it's not bad, considering they were part of a 5-mile run, the day after a 6.2 race. And it actually got quite exciting at the finish... A fast girl came up right behind me, and I accelerated, she did too, I went faster, people were cheering for her, yelling at her to push and get me, which only made me angrier so as I heard her footsteps right behind I was forced to break into one of my fastest sprints ever to the finish line (Garmin shows a 6:00 pace for the last .2 miles). Oh, and she didn't get me.
Final time was 1:13:37, ranked 86 out of 273. I also have to mention T2 which at 1:23 was my fastest ever transition in any kind of multisport race.
Black Bear weekend coming up next weekend, sprint on Saturday and olympic on Sunday.
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