Limerick Duathlon 17th Feb 10:30am St Enda’s sports complex.
3.8km run / 16km bike / 3.8km run

This was my fist ever Duathlon and therefore was very important to me, I had set myself a target of 1hr5mins based on my run times of Tuam8k plus recent bike times, This should be very achievable but as I had never raced this format it was hard to know how I would perform, I had done brick sessions and even duathlon format in training but not at race intensity.
            Race day was a cold frosty start, leaving house at 7:30am(thanks to Sinead for coming for spin and supporting me on the day). We arrived at 8:50am and I went up to register then racked my bike, got changed and did a warm up. At 10:30am we had race brief then the 85competitors started the 3.8km run. Conditions were perfect for fast times as there was no wind at all. The first run was quick and I hit the turn point on 7mins dead a lot faster than planned, I got back into T1 in 14mins 40sec after being passed by a lot of good runners, after a terrible T1 I headed out to chase them down on bike were a passed about 20people before turn, I had a great bike leg then started second run where Mairtin sailed passed me on his way to a time of 54:57 and 15th overall with some fantastic running in particular is second run which was 10th fastest, he was the top finishing Predator member. I struggled through second run and came in on 56:47 and 23rd overall I was delighted with this time as I had hope to break 1hr5 and at best break the hour.
            Tommy had great race and came in on 1hr 26sec and Aiofe had fantastic first Duathlon and done 1hr14min32 sec and was 12th placed Female (well done to all the guys who made trip done and shame on those that hit the snooze button)
            The next race is on the 2nd March and I would recommend this great run race to all in the club, get down there and you might surprise yourself how much fun you have and how competitive you are after your winter training.

My splits were

Run1 (3.8k)                   = 14:40           29th
Bike (16km) + T1        = 26:08           14th
Run2 (3.8k) + T2         = 15:59           29th

Total 56:47       23rd/85