Wow. It sure has been a while. While I do enjoy reading up on other blogs, I seem to have trouble keeping up with mine. I competed in my first Duathon in June. It was so hard. I naively went in thinking it would be a breeze. 2 mile run, 10 mile bike ride, 2 mile run. I had been doing my runs every day. I am currently up to Day 461 of my runstreak. (I have run at least one mile everyday for 461 days. Most days I do at least 2 miles. So I knew the run wouldn't be too bad. Also, the family had taken to riding bikes in the evenings so we had done some 5-6 mile bike rides on dirt roads. The race course said it was flat and paved so I was thinking that if I could do 5-6 miles in heavy dirt I could do 10 miles paved. Ha ha. The first 2 mile run went great. I felt good and keep a really good pace. My training pace is usually 10 minute miles. I did the first two miles keeping an 8:39 pace. However, the bike ride really hit me hard. My bike is a few years old and I haven't kept it up like I should have. After too many nights in the rain it was pretty rusted. The brakes would not release all the way so the back brake was "hugging" my tire. Anyway, the course was not all flat. There was one good hill and we had to do it twice. I lost a lot of time on the bike ride. I knew coming off the ride and getting ready to run again that I would not make my goal time. So it was time for a new goal. My new goal was to run the last two miles - no walking. See another thing I didn't take in account for is how tired my legs would be after a two mile run and 10 mile bike ride. It took a minute or so just to be able to stand back up on my legs after the bike ride. So I made a new goal to run the whole last two miles. I was proud that not only did I run the whole two miles I did it in a 10 minute pace. I really did enjoy this race and look forward to doing it again. However, next time I plan to actually train for it. :o)