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purple hayes
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 Posted: 10/12/03 - 16:43 Post subject: Big Canoe Duathlon Race Report
Scroll down for Cliff's Notes.
4:45AM alarm goes off and I roll out of bed for some coffee and a quick shower before I'm out the door an hour later.
5:45AM In the truck for a 2 hr. drive up to the race site.
7:45 arrive at race site and set up. Looks to be a pretty small race. Good, I like 'em that way. Putz around transition area for 30 minutes.
8:15 head for starting line and listen to the race director give a few details about the course. Most important is this hill that's just around the corner and that we'll hit it twice. Once on the way out and once on the way back. The bike course is open to traffic, but there's no traffic in rural north GA on a Sunday morning, so that wasn't a real issue.
8:30 race starts and I jack rabbit the start. Make a quick left after a 1/4 mi. and see that the RD wasn't kidding about the hill.  Holy crap! Trudged right on up and down the back side. The downs on some of the hills were so steep that I had to slow way down to keep from falling over. Part of the foot race is XC (which the website didn't mention). First mile was @ 6:30 (I was shooting for even 7's) and the 2nd was 7:30. 14:00 even for the first 2 mile leg.
Onto the bike and out of the park. The race website said moderately hilly. LIES! Hilly, really hilly. I was sure I could keep a 20+MPH avg for this course until I actually rode on it. Did I mention the hills? Avg. pace ended up being 18 MPH. That's slower than a normal training ride for me. I never ride in the smallest chainring normally. I was frequently on the smallest chain ring during this ride. From miles 4 thru 10, I was alone. No one behind me and no one in front. 1 guy passed me @ 10 and I stayed with him and then a lady passed us @ 12 and we hung with her. On this humongous hill right to wards the end, we passed a 16 y.o. on a MTB. The four of us pretty much hit the 2nd transition together.
Off the bike and bike into my running shoes. I was 3rd of the group of 4 to hit the trails again. The MTB riding kid passed me pretty quickly into the run but he faded fast and I re-passed him. I picked off the other two people in front of me in the first mile too and then I was alone again. No one in front and no one behind.
So that big ol hill I mentioned during the first leg of the race, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to run up it. It was way too steep and my HR would have gone into the stratosphere. I was alone and wasn't concerned about losing or gaining a place. That's only the 2nd time I've ever walked during a race. 
Down the backside of that hill and around the corner and it was a 1/4 mi. push to the finish.
Cliff's Notes ::
My 2nd Duathlon - 2 mi. run/15 mi. ride/2 mi. run
Missed my goal of 1:15 (I thought the course would be flatter and wasn't partially XC, could have hit that goal otherwise)
Finish time of 1:19:57
14th overall out of 100 or so finishers. I finished 13th OA if you don't count the relay team that beat me. Got the 2nd place in my age group. 
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 17:03 Post subject:
Excellent report. Sounds like you had a good time. I can't even do bike events. The uphills hurt my quads too much.
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Noley
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 17:09 Post subject:
Awesome report! So...how were those hills? 
Sounds like you had a big weekend.
Great job! 
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bonobo
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 17:16 Post subject:
 to the folks who wrote the course description.
 to PH for using good judgement on the last hill and for sharing his pain. You rawk, man.
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sonnylax
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 17:59 Post subject:
Good job PH!
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kattzoo
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 18:18 Post subject:
Great job! To bad you didn't have some hills to challenge you. (I'm convince the people who say "small hills" are sadists, not athletes, and sitting back laughing at the top of them)
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akern
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 18:24 Post subject:
Way to go Johnny Boy!! I saw a shirt on someone yesterday that would be perfect for you. It said: I run for the hill of it!! 
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airehead
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 18:33 Post subject:
Way to go!!!!!!  (I think your time was pretty excellent!)
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TimRuns
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 18:43 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | Way to go!!!!!! (I think your time was pretty excellent!) |
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 19:02 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | Way to go!!!!!! (I think your time was pretty excellent!) |
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i think only missing your goal by 4 min is pretty darn good, considering you walked up the hill at the end!
sounds like fun, congrats on the finish!
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 19:16 Post subject:
way to go John
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copteacher
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 19:17 Post subject:
cliff note splits please
1st run-1400
bike
2nd run
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elkid
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 20:00 Post subject:
Sounds like in GA they discuss hills like they do in NYC. Where "flat" is nonexistent, "somewhat hilly" means very challenging, "moderately hilly" means holy crap it's hilly as all hell, and "hilly" which means you better bring your own body bag with you 'cause, baby, you're gonna die.
Great report, great effort.
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 20:19 Post subject:
Great job PH!
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purple hayes
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Posted: 10/12/03 - 20:19 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | cliff note splits please
1st run-1400
bike
2nd run |
1st run = 14 min.
bike = 50 min.
2nd run = 16 min.
 My watch doesn't do splits and I have no idea what transition times were.
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