Patriot's Half - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Swam easy felt good buoys kept drifting around, should have swam a little harder but got out of the water feeling good. I did swim right past the last turn buoy, was spotting this old tower and did not realize how short the second segment was. Noticed no one around me and saw I had swam about 100 meters past the turn. Current kept pushing me to the right on the swim in.

Swim harder and not miss the turn buoy.

Long, long run to transition and was slow getting my bike shoes on

speed up on the run to transition

Pretty flat course seemed like it was constantly going up to me, but that might have just been me. Saw alot of small groups drafting. Got in a pretty good, comfortable pace stayed on by aero bars more than I have ever before. bike felt pretty good. I felt good getting off the bike

I maybe could have rode a little harder but I did die deep in the run so that might have been it?

Transition was fine but I was about to explode so stopped by the port-a-potty in transition for a lengthy stop

Nothing I could do about the stop I guess otherwise it went fairly well

Ran to mile 6 aid station no stops my plan was to run to mile 10 and then walk aid stations if I needed. had to walk aid station and eat some oranges at mile 6 and walked through the aid stations for the remainder of the course. right past mile 11 I really had to slow my pace and walked a wood bridge for some reason it made my knee hurt to run on the bridge so I walked. I kept running after the bridge but my pace was really gone, about as slow as I can run. I think everyone in the race passed me on the run??

not be fat. I really hoped that doing a half marathon early in the season would help my run since I would be concentrating on it solely but I may be slower this year????

Hung out with friends who also did the race.


My run sucks


Set up puts on good events