Celeste and I were driving through greater downtown Lewisville on Saturday morning when we encountered a closed lane on Shallowford Road and saw a race start/finish line set up by the square. We figured it was a bike race and both of us commented about how often we see things happening in Lewisville that we'd heard nothing about before the actual day of the event. We then wondered if it was a town sanctioned bike race since Lewisville is very popular with cyclists, or if maybe it was a race sponsored by a private company which is why we never heard about it.
Well, it ends up that it was a short course duathlon put on by a Raleigh based company called Finish Strong. The racers ran three miles, biked 14 miles and then ran another two miles. If that's short I'd hate to see the long course. The competitor who wrote about the race on the blog I linked to thought the bike course was fantastic, describing it as "14 miles of gently rolling hills throught the wine country of the Yadkin River Valley." I think we should borrow that for the marketing of Lewisville.
Hopefully they'll come back and do it again in the future, and if they do hopefully we Lewisville citizens will hear about it and come out to spectate. I for one wouldn't be caught dead competing. Actually if I competed I would be dead.
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