Swing Into Spring Duathlon

Our Muscatine Group
Sunday-May 24: I competed in the Swing Into Spring Duathlon in Davenport, IA this morning. This was a short duathlon with a 3k run/17k bike/3k run (1.8 miles/10.2 miles/1.8 miles). The weather was great but we did have a 10 mph northeast wind that impacted the biking leg.

There were 97 participants. In my age group (55-59) there were 6 and I ended up with 5th place. Not as good as I expected, but we had two very fast competitors come down from Sterling Illinois to compete and they took 1st and 2nd in my age group. I missed 4th place by 3 seconds.

I ended up with a total time of 58:22 for the complete race. My 1st running leg was at a 7:19 pace and my 2nd biking leg was at a 22.8 mph pace and my last running leg was at a 8:03 pace. There were 6 racers from the Muscatine area and my time was 2nd in that group.

This was my first biking competition of the year and should improve as the summer moves along and I enter in a couple of other duathlons.
This is Julie from our club. With her husband Mark they competed in the team division with Julie doing the running. This is before the race started and I had just placed my bike on the rack next to Marks.