1st!!!
I finished 1st in my category in the Fontainebleau Off-Road Duathlon! Granted, there was only one other lady in the 20-29 age bracket… but that’s beside the point! It was a greuling course! 2 miles running, 8 miles biking, and 2 more miles of running… all in 1 hour 26 minutes! Another plaque for the trophy wall! 
The fastest guy out there finished in 1 hour, 1 minute flat! quite impressive! The fastest lady, who, yes, was older than me! (30-39) finished in one hour 17 minutes! But watch out next spring!!! I’m just warming up this year!
I was actually grateful to be towards the back of the pack of racers (there were around 80, with only 8 ladies total) because some of this race really was “off-road” and at least by the time I got to the really rough places a trail had sort of been beaten through. we ran in loose sand on the beach, over roots, through the woods, through fields, bamboo thickets, over your ankle deep (don’t stop or you’ll lose your shoes) mud, swamps (you really can’t do a good job of looking out for the snakes or alligators when you are running through clumps of marsh grass 4 feet high!), roads and FINALLY to the finish line!!! (if you look at the picture close you’ll see that my feet and legs are completely black with mud!) Adventure racing is a blast!
