I did it!

Yesterday I ran and rode in the Camp Pendleton "Devil Dog" Duathlon. The race consisted of a 5k run, then a 30k bike ride, and then another 5k run. All in all, I ran 6.2 miles and biked 18.6 miles. This is the biggest race I've done and I was a little nervous, but I trained fairly consistently and felt ready for it. I finished in just under 2 hours and 15 minutes, not too shabby for my first bike race!

I thought it was weird that the race bibs said marathon and not Duathlon, but whatever:)


Warming up



This is after the first 5k run and I am switching to the bike. I kindof took my time in the transition area and maybe could have gone quicker, but I was savoring the time to rest:)

A big thanks to my sis-in-law, Robin for letting me borrow her mountain bike which I used for training. I had planned on using it in the race as well, but after a long training ride that took much longer than I had hoped for, I asked James if he could fix up my dad's old road bike. He spent all this past week working on it and did an awesome job (thanks honey!). I think it was actually extremely beneficial to train on a mountain bike and then do the actually race on a road bike.

Switching back to running to finish the last leg of the race.

Sprinting in to the finish! I didn't think that I had enough energy left to really sprint to the finish, but when I rounded the corner and saw the clock at 2:14:35 and realized that I could finish under 2:15:00, I had a burst of motivation. It felt awesome!

Me and my bike

I couldn't resist striking a pose. I was feeling pretty awesome:)