Saturday, May 08, 2010

Results Analysis and More Pics from the Falls Duathlon

It's now been 1 week since team Wait, This Isn't Badminton? competed in the Cannon Falls Duathlon.  The results were posted quickly after the race, but there are a few issues with them.  I don't know that they will (or can) be fixed, so I'm going to go with what I can, and give some analysis.

6th Place Team Overall
Katie and I took 6th place out 13 teams.  That's the top half!  We were about 6 minutes behind the closest team, so I'm not sure we could have caught them anyway.

Run 1 — 4th out of 13
In the first run, I took 4th place out of all the teams' first runners.  My official time was 14'19" and the next closest was 13'40".  Could I have pushed a bit more and taken 3rd?  Maybe, but I'm really happy with my run.  The fastest time was 11'34", which is really fast.  I'd like to say that I don't trust that time, but looking at that runner's time for the 2nd run, it's very believable.

T1 — Tied for 2nd
Katie and I had the 2nd fastest T1 time out of all the teams.

Cycling — 9th out of 13
Here's where things get a bit funky.  Officially, Katie was the 9th fastest team cyclist.  The 5th place team doesn't have bike split listed, and I just don't know where the time went.  So, it's possible that Katie took a higher place on the bike segment.

T2 — 1st Place
We had the fastest T2, but once again, there's some funky data going here.  I think we really were the fastest, though, because we were very efficient in trading the chip, and Katie booked it on foot with her bike.

Run 2 — 8th out of 13
The data from run 2 is less than reliable.  2 teams had Run 2 times of less than 10 minutes, which is not physically possible.  Another team (placing 11th overall) had a 2nd run time of 18'56".  That's much too fast for someone who ran the 1st run in 20 minutes.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I had either the 5th or 6th fastest run, accounting for these timing errors.

I'm really happy with our splits, and really proud of Katie for hitting a 16.3mph average in that terrible wind.  There is also proof now that Katie did the race:




Look at her pass the fast-looking dude!




1 comment:

Katie said...

Uhh, correction... look at this fast-looking dude pass Katie. Thanks for the benefit of the doubt, though :-).

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