Patriot Half Triathlon - Triathlon

We swam right into the wind and chop. It was tough starting out. i was swimming about the same speed as everyone else and couldn't get clear water, and a rythym going.

As the wave spread out I rounded the first turn buoy and found clear water. Wind was pushing us to shore, and it took me a couple of minutes to realize this.

hit the second turn buoy headed to shore, good rythym good breathing.

Got out of the water, saw tammy and Myles, ran to my T1 spot. Good swim. Thought i did worse compared to pace, but was right there. Could have gone a bit faster heading towards shore, but very satisfied with my swim.

other than pee before the swim instead of waiting for the swim, nothing. Water was pretty rough, and I thought I did a good job.

Very surprised at the time. This sure felt longer. Not a great transition. Although, i was chatting with my wife while trying to get the suit off of my heels. My spot was right at the end, and she found me straight away.

helmet on, shoes on. Need to change the way I put my bike on the rack. When I pulled my bike out, my water bottles got caught on the rack, and did something to my rear water bottle holder.

ran out to the bike out, and the mount line. was behind 3 people. two to my left and one to my right. the two on the outside got to the mount line and stopped and got on, the one to my immediate right went right passed them and stopped. with no room in front I went to the left, right next to the railing that divided bike in/out. I hopped on and went to clip in. i veered to the left, and my handlebar and hand clipped the raililng. Got a cut on my hand, and dinged my handlebar pretty good.

Uh, pay attention and focus when clipping in. Should have gone further ahead to clip in.

Started off slow, as i was trying to determine whether i should turn around and get my hand tended to. Bleeding pretty bad, but as it turned out just a scrape.

I struggled with some of the hills, but overall kept a good pace. It may have been too fast, as my I blew up on the run. Did good turning corners even with some of the crosswinds on the causeways.



Not sure. Need to go to Spark to get my bike fitted again. Aero position is still a bit too aggressive. I had some hip issues starting on the run.

NEED TO WORK ON HILLS. This is the part that kills me every time. I fly past people on the downhill only to be passed by those very same people going uphill. Someone I was trading places with asked me on the run if I biked with power, he said I was very consistent so thought that I did. I don't, so that's encouraging.

Pretty good transition. had an issue re-racking my bike, but overall good.

run to transition instead of walk, especially in bare feet.

Awful run.The first couple of miles, i was running at about a 7:18 clip. Maybe I should have slowed down some at first. But I completely blew up around mile 6. Had to walk up most of the hills, and i stopped at almost every aid station getting water, coke or orange. Tried the heed once, but spat it right out.



Not sure if this was due to pushing too hard on the bike, or not running enough. Probably not running enough, and started out too fast. My legs were rubbery at mile 8/9.

Also might have been pyschological. The run was VERY mind numbing. It would have been a much better run if they made it a two looper.

could barely stand, so sat down on a chair in the finish area, and talked to my wife while i ate oranges and drank water.

got my hand cleaned up, and did some stretching. post race food was pretty good, better than most. Although, by the time I finished there were no burgers but meat lasanga? yumm.


not enough run training. Not enough hill training on the bike.


Run was very hilly compared to the bike. Good race, although, in an email sent out prior they stated prices for food for spectators, and then at the race, they changed the price.