1st Duatló Ciutat de Granollers 
I had already shot at the Circuit de Catalunya. On Tuesdays and Thursdays is open to cyclists, and there we can roll on asphalt without the danger of cars. I knew it was a tour durum, which was not enough to go to conference, saving forces, but had to squeeze into the bike leg. Although this year I've hardly touched. I did Muntanya Duatló Cabrils, which made me very hard the bike industry, and a couple of exits on my own, but this year the goal is to make Barcelona Marathon a good workout and I concentrate on the run ... This first
Ciutat de Granollers Duatló the first sector was walking completely around the circuit, about 5 miles. The output butt, of course, and come to start suffering this will be short. Then I stand next to Peter, my coach of the Hockey Club
Cerdanyola. It is the first time I meet him in a competition and I have no idea how to start, just know that you intend to make the top 3 in the V2 category. Evil can not walk. As I say, I am with him in the stretch on foot, if that is his strong point, good sign! His series are bearing fruit!
Total
that the 5 miles (do not know if very accurate, but pretty hard) I make in 19:32, almost my personal record by 5 km, at position 91, which incidentally will keep until the end. Phew, now comes the bike, my land.
Transition boxes next to the car. Right there we have been overcrowded with bikes rather close together, will be no space in those giant boxes. The bike leg is four laps of the circuit, in which the plate is not removed. In other duathlons the bike leg I used to forward positions, so that the bike is my territory, and I have the strength to walk the last mile. As these can be done drafting duathlons (nice euphemism for what has always been called tailgating), as in the flat sections and try to stick to saving the maximum wheel. But in the uphill sections, especially the first Seat turn, almost without realizing I am always pulling the group, come to suck air cool. Of course, the longest flat stretch, the finishing straight, I get to recover hidden wheel. Serve as something all those years of saving forces rolling road ...
On the last lap we caught the son of Sales (great companion for so many years of battles on the bike), which confirms that I'm going quite well ... Although the last mile walk volver'a let me ... In all this cold I have no news. I almost regret having run the spring jersey, but is that part of the cold, I like both the classic jersey Eddy Merckx Molteni ....
Returns are fly by me, we make them in 34:57, an average of 32.65 miles per hour, pretty good, but far from the 39.74 km / hour Jordi, Dani, Paul and company made last Sunday here at the Circuit in the first round of Masters of the season, the Memorial Pere Pujol. And that they did 9 laps ....
In the last transition lose more time than you should, I find neither the bike at a bike that salad and numbers changed. Finally I go for the last 2.5 miles are no longer within the circuit, but made by the service lane. That happened to some and actually get my best biased position (78 º), but finally came in 91 th position, ranked 280, 6 th in my age group. Come on, glad that insufficient time (1 h 4 m 58s) of effort, thinking that the next day I had to run the traverse Sant Antoni where certainly got my personal record by 10 km with 38:44.
If no such training to get good marks ...
classifications:
http://duatlogranollers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DUATLO-GRANOLLERS-2011.pdf All photos:
http://2011.duatlogranollers.com/
