2011 Races

The Pardeeville Tri didn't go as well for me as I hoped this year.  In fact I was significantly slower than I expected.  I just couldn't get my rhythm on the swim and ended up doing the breast stroke for virtually the entire distance.  I thought I had a great bike ride, but it turns out it was only slightly faster than last year.  And while I ran virtually the entire 5K with only a small amount of walking, I ran very slow to try to keep running -- and last year I must have run faster in spite of walking more.  My running pace must have been faster.  I think I was actually overconfident in my swimming as I did a lot more practicing this year and felt like I had improved both in endurance and speed.  The good news is that my bike ride did improve slightly, with my new Cannondale Synapse 7.  I am at 1bout 109 miles for the year so far including the 2 races.  While this is not much by most athlete's standards, it is certainly the most biking I've done at this point in a season.

As it is, here are my results.

bib number:	178
age:	35
gender:	M
location:	De Forest, WI
overall place:	237 out of 348
division place:	21 out of 21
gender place:	156 out of 192
time:	1:36:01
swim:	9:56
t1:	2:51
bike:	48:28
t2:	2:23
run:	32:26

So biking pace was 18.57 mph.  This is a relatively flat course.  The wind was not too bad.  So it makes sense to me that I improved my biking pace significanly over my Norski Duathlon pace of 16.9 (see below).

Number of Finishers:	348
Number of Females:	157
Number of Males:	191
Average Time:	1:31:20

On July 4 I also ran the DeForest Freedom Run 5K.  Interesting thing about that is my GPS says it was only 3.07 miles (not 3.2).  So does that mean my results are actually about a minute faster than a real 5K race?  And what are the standards for how accurate a race is?
 83  11/14    1310 ABE DEGNAN          M 5K      28:17  9:06


The 4th Annual DeForest Norski Duathlon was June 11, 2011.  This was a good race overall.  I had a great 5K time, my fastest ever.  Biking went fairly well -- it is a hilly course and we had a headwind on the way out.  The tailwind on the way back was helpful!  After a great 5K and good bike, my both calf muscles cramped up.  So I spent a lot of time walking and stretching during the last 2.0 mile run, but completed it with with a slight improvement over last year's time, in the end.

Overall Place/ Category Place     46    11/13  

Bib  194 Abe Degnan                 35 M    
Run 1 Rank / Time/ Transition    53    26:03.9                          1:43.4 transition
Bike Rank / Time / Transition     37    54:55.9   (16.9 MPH)    1:41.1 transition
Run 2 Rank / Time                     69    22:53     (11:27 pace)
Overall                                         1:47:17.0