Patriots Half - Aquabike

This was a warm swim in the James River. How can I describe the river? It is tidal. Translation, it was crazy choppy with waves! It is brackish. Translation, I swallowed far too much salt water in all the chop. Oh, and it rained. Hard at times. Translation, I couldn't see where the heck I was going! I only saw one buoy on the way back to the finish after turning.

I wish I knew! I felt good during the swim, I just sucked!

I think I was most afraid of the run to transition with my foot! I had shoes waiting right out of the water. I was surprised that the run wasn't too bad! The worst part was trying to run in my bike shoes. The rain was pretty much stopped by the time I started the bike.

The rain pretty much stopped by the time the bike started. I was happy with my bike time as I was about 16 mins faster than last year! All to soon the bike was over and my race was done.

Nothing

Walked around with a cold towel. Had some pizza. Not really tired since I didn't run. I finished third overall in the Aquabike!


This was my second year doing this race. It is well organized with tons of volunteers. I was glad that there was an Aquabike division that I could change to. I was able to wait until packet pickup to change. There was a tent for the Aquabike finish where I was told I would receive my medal. It was a little disappointing when I finished and crossed the timing mat and went to the finishing tent. There was no one there! My husband had to go find a volunteer who did not know what to do, but was very nice and went and got someone else, who got me a medal (it was the wrong one but at least thy tried)!