What to wear for a duathlon

[beetle]

Well the weather has not let up and a ship has run aground only a couple of hundred metres from where the run route passed on the beach. The race was cancelled last night due to risk of pollution from the ship and the police need access to the road. Despite that though I think it would have been cancelled for safety reasons anyway as some of the news footage I saw showed waves breaking on the road. Its always a pain when events are cancelled but I think it was probably a wise decision, at least competitors where advised before the weekend rather than on race morning.

Now I will have to brave the weather tomorrow for a training ride.

[Tri Girl]

bummer about your race, Beetle! Do you have another one scheduled sometime soon?

[beetle]

Only some run events which is good but unfortuanately not good transition practice. Next is a HM at the end of July.

I ended up doing a longer brick training session instead yesterday:

4km run, 25km ride, 4km run, 27km ride and 2km run - took me 3:12 and had a nice drenching of raiin in the middle of it.

[Reesha]

Wow, that's impressive! I can only hope to get to that point some day. I went a-searching for duathlon stuff as I am competing in my first trail duathlon in about an hour or two... I decided to wear my bike shorts and bike jersey. It's pretty short (1k trail run, 10k, mtn bike, 5k trail run) and I feel strong enough to do it for sure, but I'm worried my meager technical expertise for mountain biking will trip me up somewhere on the course. It's just a mile down the road, I'll be able to practice that loop whenever I want! This is a weekly event too just like the mini-tris we have here in town. I'm nervous but excited!

[beetle]

That sounds like a fun event. How did it go? Are you planning to do it every week?