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This was the shortest multi-sport race I\u2019ve done:\u00a0 2.2 mile run, 12 mile bike, 2.2 mile run.\u00a0 As a French ultra-marathoner friend once wrote, \u201cThe shorter distances.\u00a0 They are more violent.\u201d So the strategy (other than to get out of bed at 5:15, not crazy early in the day but late enough in the season to think, \u201cReally? Do I really have to do this?\u201d\u00a0 And that, my friends, is why I register in advance of race day: it forces me to get up and do the damn race\u2026): to run really as fast as I can for the first run, imagine I am only riding the bike leg, and then with a slight pause to \u201cfind my legs\u201d off the bike, go maximum effort again.\u00a0 Privately, I was shooting for 7:00 minute\/miles, and 20 mph on the bike.\u00a0 So, that\u2019s just over an hour, 1:10 to be precise, without including the two transition times.<\/p>\n

Nice, small bunch of people:\u00a0 some first time couples on their mountain bikes, some experienced and older and FAST people.\u00a0 Bumped into Danny Secow, who I\u2019d met at Westchester Tri last year.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad that I\u2019ve aged out from your age group:\u00a0 he\u2019s unbelievably fast, and ends up in this race taking third place for his class.\u00a0 (But I’m getting ahead of myself.)<\/p>\n

The race itself is relatively uneventful, except that the initial uphill brings my HR all the way to maximum and it\u2019s a short out an back on the east side of the Park, and I\u2019m just pushing hard, and it feels good, and I manage to average 7:08s.\u00a0 Though I am largely ignoring my watch, avoiding the distraction and potential worry about metrics, it beeps at the end of each mile, and I peek, because nothing wrong with getting encouraging news.<\/p>\n

The bike is more challenging, not that The Hill is so terrible, but because by 8:40 a.m., the Park is filling up with people:\u00a0 joggers and bicyclists and strollers and dog-walkers.\u00a0 So even though I had been concerned about getting swept up in the danger of the other racers going too fast and too closely together, the danger turned out to be the pedestrians\/civilians. Almost everyone were fine with my calling out \u201cOn your left!\u201d or more frequently (because of the way the no-cars traffic seemed to work) \u201con your right!\u201d \u00a0Some even thanked me.\u00a0 Well, one did anyway\u2026 And one woman yells, not yet seeing me, \u201cOh, really?\u00a0 I don\u2019t friggin believe it!\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why I love New York.<\/p>\n

Bikes get pretty spread out, though I did leap frog with one young guy in a black shirt and tights (even though it was a gorgeous sunny day, temps at 58 and went up to maybe 70), the downhill around the public pool is pretty technical and scary, and I was afraid if I wasn\u2019t careful, I\u2019d end up overshooting the transition area and do THIRD lap by mistake. Bike:\u00a0 \u00a020.8 mph.<\/p>\n

The run was rough, only because I wanted to go fast as I can, and I had pushed pretty hard on the bike, and on the way back on the last mile I\u2019m thinking \u201cWherever I am near the podium, it won\u2019t make a difference now:\u00a0 whoever\u2019s ahead is way ahead, and whoever\u2019s behind is\u2026 Wait, that guy who was running towards me and was about to turnaround \u2026 He could catch me.\u201d\u00a0 So I am doing what I can as hard as I can, and I GET TO THE FINISH LINE.<\/p>\n

(Short race, great to have a short race).<\/p>\n

And the second run is in 16:25, or 7:24 per mile.\u00a0 So the average of the two runs is 7:14 min\/mile \u2013 almost as I had been hoping.<\/p>\n

Final time, 1:08:18.\u00a0 More notably:\u00a0 Second Place for my Age Group!<\/p>\n

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With Tim Bradley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is turning out to be a good season.\u00a0 Thank you, Coach Debi.<\/p>\n

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2\/14 AG, 54\/290 OA<\/p>\n

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