Congratulations to Slowtwitcher Chad on his dominating performance and 1st overall win at the OC Duathlon this morning!!!
Congratulations Chad!
clm
Would that be CDW?
If so, no wonder. That dude can RUN.
Great job chad. Too bad you use power cranks and longer cranks.
See ya in May. We just did a 50 mile ride of the auburn course and
a 7 mile run on the Auburn trail hills as training today. I am dead!!!
Dave
Thanks Mike,
I made the drive back safely and I’ve now been awake for 18 hours after the 2:30 wake-up. And, I need to put the kids to bed. There were high fives all around when they found out old dad won a race after taking second, third, fourth, ect. High fives from the kids beat any awards.
I was so content on the way home, I even stopped and bought my wife flowers. She seemed happy to see me despite the fact I had been gone all day. 
Chad
Congrats!
tc
Congratulations.
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Awesome result Chad!
Very nice result indeed. We are all proud of you.
Herbert
really didn’t realize this thread was about H20fun, thanks for giving us your training info and trying to get in on someone else’s glory!
Great result. Congratulations.
What is your issue? Some of us are interesting in what type of equipment a stud like Chad uses.
I own the bike I do because of Chad. I got back into PC’s because of Chad. He is a key person that
convinced me to try longer cranks. I am very interested in know what thing top folks do, and try
some of them. I let the guy stay in my house while I was gone and had never met him before.
He is coming with family in May again for the Auburn race. Yep, I have a lot of respect for Chad,
by my actions!
Dave
Congrats! What were you splits?
Couldn’t you just say congrats w/o giving your lame training stats. I try not to read your posts, because they are so ego-centric.
Way to go Chad! (Sorry this is a little late, I was out of town).
I purposely didn’t wear a watch for this race so I wouldn’t worry about how fast we were going. I ran about the first half-mile of the course and realized it was all downhill, so I figured it would be very fast and I needed to stay back and let others take the pace for a while. I was sitting in about 15th place after the half-mile and about 8th or 10th at a mile (which I was too curious not to ask Kevin G. in front of me–4:57)
At that point, I was running with a short kid and after a few minutes I just had to ask him how old he was. He told me he was sixteen. I could have been his dad with ease. It was crazy. He was polite though and told me his dad was riding and his sister was running the second 5K. After a bit he suggested we work together to catch the leaders up the road and I laughed and said I still had to ride and run the course again. Fortunately, almost everyone came back to me and I came into the transition a few seconds beyond Daniel Derkas who had the fastest first run. I saw the clock around 16:15, so we were around 16:20ish for the first run.
I made it out of transition just behind the leader and was on the bike and down the road first and then managed to pull my foot out of a pedal and lost some time. I followed Derkas all the way up the first loooong uphill section and took the lead on the first downhill. It was kind of a hoot following the lead motorbike for the first time in my life. Except for that really long first stretch of climbing, there were only a few short bumps and it was really fast.
Riding scared is bizarre if you have not done it. Whenenver I chase my kids around or race them somewhere I always yell, “Don’t look back, don’t look back!” as we run frenetically to wherever we are going. That kept running through my head, so I just kept riding and didn’t look back. Somebody passed me on the bike, I think it was Mac Brown, going up the hill on the way back. Then another guy caught me just as we re-entered the bike trail and we rode that section entirely too fast for our long-term health.
Uh-oh, I’m being called to the family game. I’ll have to finish later.
Chad
BTW, that 16yr old kid was Dalton Souza, Kenny Souza’s son. He is becoming quite the runner!!
Well, he was wearing a cool Avia kit, so that was definately him.
To continue the earlier comments, three of us came into transition together and I ran out first and picked up the lead bike rider, who turned out to be the race director, Bill Leach. We sort of chatted for a bit, but I was sucking air and didn’t have much to spare. At the turn I saw I had a small gap, so I kept pressing hard through the two-mile mark and kept thinking I couldn’t blow it now. My kids listen to music from Hannah Montana and I had one of the songs in my head that I kept repeating, “Don’t … let … anyone tell you that you’re not strong enough.” It was cheasy, but kept me moving down the road. All of a sudden we came around the final bend and I was there at the finish. The clock still said 1 hour 30 minutes, so I knew I had a good day and had gone faster than the previous year’s winner so I couldn’t help but smile as I cruised to the finish chute.
I’ve been racing multi-sport for about seven years and been 2nd in duathlons on at least four occasions, so finally winning a race was very satisfying. I felt like a bit of a goofball at the finish because I nearly started to cry when I thought about my kids. They always ask me, “Dad, did you win?” after I come home from races that the whole family doesn’t attend. Of course, I have to say, “No, I did not.” Right after I finished, it occurred to me that I could go home and say, “Well, yes I did!” I find it kind of amusing that when you are a kid you always look for your parents approval and then when you are a parent then you love to have your children think you are at least sort of cool. I guess we don’t change much for all that we grow older.
Chad
P.S. I was running a bit after finishing and cheering for runners down to the mile mark. On the way back I began running with a very fit looking girl (she was 37, so still younger than me) and we chatted off an on while she suffered in to the finish. With about half a mile to go we passed a guy who had 68 written on his calf. I could not help but think that our sport is just great when you have multiple generations of people all competing. Just like I was old enough to be Dalton’s dad, this guy was old enough to be mine.
Good job! Way to go! Thats pretty f*cking awesome.
It gives hope to old-timers everywhere, Brian.
You are never too old.
Chad