Powerade Duathlon: You're next!

After that leg crunching half marathon coined as The Condura Run, I am setting my sight to the Powerade Duathlon at MOA this coming Saturday, March 28.

With leg pains this morning, I thought of doing my recovery run with a bit of biking, resulting to a mini-brick training vis-a-vis duathlon preparation. 

I didn't want to push hard, and biking for 5K at a steady pace of 25kph and running for 2K at 7:00 m/km was good enough. It was  the transition I planned on training for, not the endurance. Its amazing how your muscles forget a workout when you haven't done that workout for weeks, and the 3-week lay off from endurance biking somehow made my biking muscles "forget" how pedaling feels. Gearing at 2 and 4 felt like it was at 2 and 1.

My legs still felt heavy after dismounting from my bike and running. This is the part where I need more training on, transition. I regret not sticking to my brick trainings weeks back, and I'm paying the price now.

Two more days of bricking hopefully will bring the muscles back to competitive levels....hopefully...