Race results from Bismarck are posted. I finished 11 of 17, better than expected actually. Interesting that my bike was relatively good, in the mix with five others who finished the bike in 1:14-1:15 for spot 6-12 on the bike, so I'll take that as a success. My run came in at 55:06 per the official results, and that is incredibly slow for me. The first 5k was a 21:05, which isn't bad considering I limped in for the final 1.5 miles after a good split at the 1.5 mile mark.
Overall, I am really disappointed with these results, but it was fun to do the race. Like I said before, I learned a very important lesson that I don't like duathlons. That said, doing workouts of run-bike-run should really improve both my bike and run for triathlons. I'll start putting those into my workouts. I was already thinking about it, and this absolutely confirms the validity of that type of workout. Even this past week at Hebgen Lake, I could feel that my legs weren't what they could be on the run.
I have seven weeks til the Portland Tri to get into optimal shape. With a run-bike-run workout and a good race distance bike-run brick each week, I should be able to get where I want to be. I'm going to cut back a bit on the hours in order to get in higher intensity workouts, too. Right now I think I'll plan for 8-10 hours instead of 10-12 (and only hitting ten anyway!).
Another interesting thing: I'm losing weight right now at about one pound per week not doing anything. Very strange. I think that might be a sign of overtraining, at least in terms of intensity because I'm sure it's not hours. Every workout to this point except a couple runs per week has been a high intensity, and that's not such a great thing as it might sound.
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