Preparing for Callaway Gardens Duathlon
Although I've run and biked for decades, today is the first time I've tried run-bike-run back-to-back-to-back. It was only 5K run, 30K ride and 5K run, but Holy Cow! My respect for duathletes and triathletes skipped a notch and went up by two.
The transition from run to bike was easy. When I got off the bike and started to run however, things were significantly different. I knew I was going slow, but I didn't know I was able to run slower than a 10-minute mile. It wasn't until the last mile or so that I was able to get my normal running stride back.
Aerobically I'm fine. 2-3 hours of near continuous exercise on a bike is not unusual for me, but during that second run, my legs just would not do what I asked them to do. I think I'll have to put in a quick run after my daily bike commute to teach my muscles what to do.
The Callaway Gardens Duathlon is May 13th. Callaway Gardens is a couple of hours south of Atlanta near Warm Springs, GA. It's a great place for bike riding whether you intend to run afterwards or go see the butterfly exhibit, Horticultural center, Beach Pavillion, golf course, ....
posted by Jett @ 12:46 PM
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9 Comments:
I have thought about doing a dualathalon for about 3 seconds. I'm not that tough and I know it. Good job on completing your 1st one!
BTW, you fortune cookie is really cool. I would love to have it on my blog but nothing shows when I add it. Any suggestions on how to add it to my blog??
Did I mention previously that I used to live in Georgia? I live in the northeast part of the state; Clarksville, Toccoa area. Quite beautiful. My daughter was born there.
Oops! You helped me discover I made a mistake when I tried making my Fortune Cookie post fit better. There should not be a line break in the middle of the URL; it should all be on one line.
I've made a note of this on the post and updated the post.
I did not see that you had lived in GA. It looks like you've traded old worn-down mountains for fresh sharp, spiky (and snowy) ones. I had commented on your blog how the contrast between here and there is favorably jiggling my neurons.
You say you're not tough, but I wouldn't get near snow melt in that little inflatable tube. It does look like fun though, if I imagine it being 85 degree water ;-).
Cold is a state of mind...Heat is harder to handle, it's easier to get warm than it is to cool down.
I was born and raised here, so moving to Florida and later Georgia exposed me to a very, very different world, culture as well as landscape. BTW, those aren't mountains down there, we call them "hills" :)
You're right about warming up vs. cooling down. You can always put on more clothing, but it doesn't work the other way ;-).
How come GA/FL? Were you trying to draw the longest diagonal between the places you've lived? Florida is certainly flat. The highest point in that state is still lower than where I'm sitting right now in Atlanta. And yes, Ga's 4500-foot peaks would be the foothills for 10-14K+ peaks.
Glad to see you've gotten the fortune cookie to work.
Wow, great job! I hate running and could never do something like that. Very impressive.
Back to footie. I grew up in an area of English, Irish and Scott. In the summer, English teams would come for off season touring and training. That was the early 60's.
I worked in marketing for the New England T men in the 70's. I was going to make soccer coaching a career. I was a USSF staff coach and a few friends stuck with it and are now at places like Duke, URI, Brown to name a couple.
Before retiring from coaching 7 years ago, I was scouting in the New England area for a few universities in Div 1 and 3.
Now I am a fan and do lots of traveling to games.
Wifey is leaving for Atalanta tomorrow to visit #1 son. I decided to stay home for this one. She is retired and I need to save vacation days for a couple of bike trips this summer.
Son works at Czarnowski, a trade show company. You ever heard of it?
Well, if you've been looking for comments that stay on the topic of duathlons, you might want to skip to the next comment ;-).
Midnight Rider,
Have not heard of Czarnowski. My wife was in retail about 15 years ago and spent many hours in the marts downtown, but she only remembers the brands she bought.
As far as coaching, having daughters, most of my contacts are on the women's side and even there, mostly in the southeast. It is a rather small soccer world in the US however, and we're surprised who we keep running into.
We live a couple of blocks from Gavin Owen-Thomas, of gotsoccer.com. He served as the girls ODP coach for my daughter's age group a few years back. Some coaches take a while to appreciate. He was one you could see was good within minutes. Also spent a good bit of time with Bruce Brownlee. My daughter's current coach is Tony Annan who is a good bit younger, but had taken a few boys teams to the Nationals before picking up his first girls team. Dan and Kelly Cagle were at Duke and now coach at Va Tech. They had coached my daughter's team about 4-5 years ago. We know lots of former WUSA players; our youth club's current director is Nel Fettig who captained the North Carolina squad in the mid 90's.
Part of our visit to New England is to check out schools. We may tap you for contact info.
Daughter's team has a page at http://www.91furygold.com/.
I remember Brownlee from some kind of internet site 7 or 8 years ago. It was a coaches forum of some sort.
I moved to Florida in 1988 when the economy dropped out here in Alaska. My then-husband was a line-man and there were jobs down south, none up north, so that's were we headed. The job in Florida finished up in 3 months, then took a job in Georgia and that took a few years to finish up.
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