Duathlon Nationals

Just a quick update on how Duathlon Nationals went. I'll put some pictures up in a couple of days with maybe a little more of a recap. The short of it was I came 2nd in the 25-29 age group and was 13th overall. The overall winner was in my age group so that kind of stunk. He ran like a darn deer (both 5ks=sub 15:30). Ran my fastest 5k ever and it was in the first leg of a duathlon. Biked my ass off and rode by almost everyone in my age group and the one below mine. I then watched about 5 or 6 guys run away from me, most of which I saw blatantly drafting on the bike. I'm getting tired of this happening in these bigger races and yes for some it is hard to avoid at times b/c of the nature of the course, but for others who do not even try to get away and ride their own ride this disgusts me. I guess at the end of the day each of these people know whether or not they deserved their result. Personally, I'd rather be 13th place and know I raced the race on my own effort rather than a higher place off a mostly free bike ride. Sorry for the rant...it's just getting old. You work your butt off to be as versatile a multi-sport athlete as possible and then you get beat by men (boys?) who don't have enough self respect to compete to truly test themselves.

Congrats to a lot of local people who raced very well today. Sam won the 20-24 age group. Joel was 15th I think overall. Todd Bibb had a great race and was right up there in the top few on both the runs. He's going to be scary at duathlon once he gets some more riding under his belt. Jacob Anderson improved on his race from last year in a big way. I know Leslie Fedon had a good one. Tad Derrick and Jeremy Davidson were up there getting after it too. Unfortunately, Denise Woods got a flat on the bike...she seemed in good spirits afterwards regardless of the fact. I saw some other Final Kick jerseys out there and they all looked like they were giving it their all. Next race = Kinetic half ironman on May 8th. Thanks for reading.