Josh here; coming off a great win at Shermanator, my confidence was back and I was ready to smoke it at Cereal City. This is a great new race sponsored by our great Team Active Cycling & Fitness shop and also brings out a ton of WSI Racers.
It was another beautiful morning and I was set for another Du. Last year I placed second overall. With longer runs, if swift runners are at this race it’s hard to gain enough time on the bike split, even averaging over 23mph, to keep enough space for a win. That is exactly what happened last year.
While runners started out faster than me, I just tried to keep them in sight. Unfortunately, one was fast enough that even with my decent bike split, I would only have enough in me if he ran a slow second run and he did not! This guy ran 20min 5Ks and compared to my 23min 5Ks the four plus minutes I gained on him on the bike just wasn’t enough.
Overall, I placed 2nd and improved my times from last year so I am very pleased. Another great race is in the books and it was great seeing all the WSI participation and some of our sweet sponsors out there supporting (Team Active Cycling & Fitness and McCullough Chiropractic).
-Josh Haas