Dublin Duathlon – June 2008

Here’s a brief paragraph on an even briefer race (hope this won’t take me longer to write than our new talent Sean Wall took for this duathlon – a stunning 39:53min).

My “not friend anymore” Weathergod Thor had sent us the same miserable race weather as we experienced for the entire season 2007. Well, to be precise, it poured down with rain during the one hour sign in ritual, stopped on time for the race and then pissed again for the cycle home (ok Martin King can word this smarter for sure).

Back to the actual race – This guy artlouchlainnmacmanusa was done in only 36:33 and presumably got home in the dry too. He must have stayed dry before the race as well, because I didn’t see him at all and had my hopes up that perhaps someone else would win this – just for a change. But where were the other suspects who could potentially win these races…?Well, Katharina Baldinger had to fight harder to come first, again (40:06). both set new course records and improved last month’s time by minutes!The Pulse turnout was relatively poor compared to last month, with only Brid, Jackie, Dave, Gerard, Paul M., Paul R., Sean, Owen, Mark and myself, but the morale was strong as ever and got nurtured by an enthusiastic Pulse audience, Alison, Derek and Owen (photos?). All of us bar Dave (puncture) finished with respectable results. Dave joined the Pulse spectator team with all his remaining energy!

To sum this up – a fine mid-week after work exhaustion programme and to be repeated and of course improved next month (hope they will increase the distances so that diesel engines like me warm up, before the race is over).

This race report wasn’t too difficult actually – and took less than the winning time to write

Photos of Dublin Duathlon – June 2008

Written by: Thorsten Peters