On November 10th six of our athletes raced at the first TCSD Duathlon of the season. It had a graciously late start of 8:30, up in Carlsbad. We went up in a couple different cars, getting there in time to set up in transition and for the racers to get a short warm up in. The race was a 2 mile run/14mile bike/two mile run; with all of the runs on trails around a small lake. The course was challenging and was always climbing or descending. All of the racers placed very well despite many of them using it as a hard workout. Official results are not posted, but Chris Burnham was 3rd overall, Sante Kotturi had a great first run leg to get his race started, Mark Chaisson rode hard and made up a lot of ground on the bike. Tyler Carle raced very well despite a detour on the bike because of a wrong turn and new team member Lauren Chiodini had an awesome race, coming out of the first run in 2nd or 3rd place for the women. Darlene Hunt got a flat on the bike, but still finished well, we look forward to seeing her bust out her new time trial bike in future races.