Harefield duathlon

Wa-hey, another duathlon victory. Well ok, only my 2nd of the season but I'm not a bad runner either. To be honest, with Jez Cox and Carl Ferri pulling out of this one at the last minute I thought I was going to have it all my own way until Mr Noah Knock turned up about 10 seconds before the start. Damn!

This event was a triathlon with a duathlon bolted on top so no swim for me but no 2nd run either. The duathletes get to start at T+ 10 minutes which usually gives enough time for about 20 of the triathletes to finish their first swim before we get the gun to go. Anyway, I had a scorching first run and managed to catch up the entire field just before the half-way point.......whoops! I suppose this swimming stuff must be tiring.

Unfortunately I had such a massive lead from the run that I was over-confident on the bike and had no way of knowing that Noah had also had a fantastic run (the 2nd fastest on the day) and was rapidly catching me. With the descent into the finish rapidly approaching I could see somebody on my tail and thought I better step on it just in case it was a duathlete rather than a triathlete. I'm glad I did. Noah was only 4 seconds behind!!! 4 seconds!!!!

Easily the fastest run of the day.....

......and perhaps the most inept bike!

Never mind, coming first twice in one week ain't so bad