Patriot Half Iron - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

For a lake swim there was a lot of chop. The wind was blowing in from the lake do it was against the current all the way out, across the current back when going across and finally with the current on the way back in. The other issue was that may wave have orange caps so when trying to site, I kept siting to orange caps rather than to the orange buoys.

As usual, I'm pretty happy with my swim, but I need to swim more in open water, especially choppier open water.

I took my time in transition, makign sure to dry my feet off and put socks on in order to prevent my feet from freezing.

Nothing really. I could have moved quicker, but I think it was worthwhile to take my time.

I was actually happy with my bike. Because my swim wave was the last wave to go off I was able to pass more people on the bike than passed me -- this was a wicked strange occurnce for me. I still need to get stronger on the bike, but I finally felt like I was showing some improvement.

Keep peddling outside. I know I can go faster than this and I just need to keep working on it.

Saw Kathy on my way in which was cool and once again I took my time in transition. I suceeded in breaking my race belt so I ran with my number partially hanging off. I kept on the same socks from the bike (they have a little tortoises and hares on them)and I have convinced myself they were lucky.

Use the port-a-pottys. I knew I needed to use the bathroom but I was so excited, I forgot to go in transition. Next time I need to remeber to use the bathroon.

Met up with Joanne on the run, who quickly pulled away from me. For the first two miles or so several people passed me, but for the remainder of the course I was able to pick off several people which felt nice. Ran with some very cool people from time to time. Pretty much kept my pace even and just walked through the aid stations (yeah for well stocked stations and very helpful volunteers).

I focused on the bike this month and I feel like I need to evenly focus on the bike and the run for the month of July. I know that I'm capable of a faster run at the end, so I just need to work on it.

Saw Chris, Kim, Joanne, Kathy and Emily at the finish line, which was great. Got my sponge and bottle of water and chatted and hugged for a while (so much better experience than at Mooseman).


Training (both over and under). Due to work I definately under trained in both April and May which led to me (probably) overtraining in June. All in all I think it work out ok, but I still need to be able to strike a better balance.


Great race, a PR by over 20 minutes from FIRMman last year.