London Duathlon 2017
September 17th 2017 10k run, 27 mile bike, 5k run I was signed up to this race during some post-LEJOG enthusiasm. I have in fact signed up to two duathlons before, but having become injured in the preceding week to both of them, I've felt I've been under a bit of a duathlon "curse" and haven't risked it since. However, despite being preceded by a heavy "10 years since university" reunion in London, I made it to the start line relatively unscathed, if a bit hungover. My eldest brother lives in Richmond, so I had the luxury of cycling (with regular Google map checks!) to the start, arriving 60 minutes early, as prescribed - despite having to clamber over a footbridge to get to the event village! This turned out to be far too much time. I was ready by 09:40, and sat around bored, watching the first wave of my race going off gradually from 09:45. By the time it came to my prescribed start time (10:30) I was desperate to go! Annoyingly I noticed fairl...