big cow winter duathlon 1

[carl f]

Neil barnes and myself drove up to MK this morning for mine and his first duathlon race of the season on a fine sunny day
This is only a small distance-4.2k run/16k bike/4.5k run,but the non drafting bike split is on a traffic free twisty and fairly technical course (12 laps of the MK bowl)
I have only just started running again after a calf injury lay off for 6 weeks or so,so didn't really want to push it on the first run too much and neil hasn't really trained for duathlon over the winter so wasn't expecting too much

Results:

Finish Run 1(4.2k) Cycle(16k) Run 2(4.5k)

1:Adam Bowden Team MK 53.40 12.42 26.51 12.48
2:Scot Wiseman Team MK 56.38 14.27 26.51 14.21
3:Carl Ferri Addiscombe CC 58.36 16.16 26.21 14.49
42:Neil Barnes Addiscombe CC 108.30 18.21 28.42 19.11
108....

I won my race entry fee for coming 3rd BUT they also put me in a vets cat which i also won, BUT i'm not 40 until november........
Well done to neil for putting in a good show too
Cheers
Carl

[Sylv]

Hey well done Carl, guess it was a good day for duathlons
they put me in 35-39 too but still 34 for 8 months

[Rob C]

Well done chaps, in BTF rules your put in the age group that corresponds to your age at the end of the year. I think anyway...

[carl f]

Thanks chaps
WOW! well done sylv,3rd in your first duo is very impressive!
Great prizes too. I got a clay trophy and a hand towel

Maybe see you at some races this year.....
Cheers
Carl

[neilb]

Nothing wrong in being a Vet!

Well done Carl, top race. And now (dare I say this) duathlons are on my list of events this year (along with TTs and tris). Just to clarify - my time was 1hr08 not 108 minutes! Now if I can just speed up that second run....

Cheers

Neil

[neilb]

Sylv

Just read your race report - great race and superb result, well done. Obviously a natural duathlete!

Cheers

Neil

[Andrew G]

Well done guys, cracking effort Carl in your first race of the year.

[Snoop Doug]

Wow! The mighty ACC are good at this duathlon stuff eh. Good work fellers. I ran for a bus once

[carl f]

Thanks chaps
Perhaps you should try running for a few more buses and eventually come and join me in a race?