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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Austin 2011

[1]
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I'm hooked
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Nice race, not as nice of a run course as NOLA but overall I liked it.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?No

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: They had a ton of aid stations on the run. However, they were all kinda close together. There was a long long section between filled with hills and no shade. One out in this area would have been smart I think.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The race was great and well organized. I really have no complaints. I am happy with my time for a first HIM, but know I can do much better in the future. For now, I am going to recover for a week or so & then get started up again for IMTX next May. I was also glad to meet a couple of BTers at the race which made it nice since I was there alone.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: I hate traffic and standing in lines. And I feel like that's all I did the entire weekend. Whether it was going downtown to have dinner or trying to get through packet pickup. The line at the Ironman store was almost as long as the line to pick up my packet, so I didn't spend a few hundred bucks there. Maybe that's not a bad thing! I probably won't be back to do this race again, but that is more a factor of there being a ton of other 70.3's I want to try, not because it was a bad race. I feel the race officials and staff did a great job with getting things on the course as decent as it was. Sounds like it could have been alot worse, especially on the bike course. And of course the wind and heat are completely out of their control.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The wind was killer, but the bike route is awesome. The roads are a bit rough, but I loved the course itself. The run is almost never flat.
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Comments: The race volunteers were great, and with different weather, the course would have been fine, so overall, a decent race, but I don't plan to travel all the way to TX to do it again.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: Loved everything about the race I simply wasn't ready. Only negatives were the brutality of the racing surface and and the 1 car on the course.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: My Grandmother (Maw Maw) is going thru Chemo right now and is doing great. For this race i wrote Maw Maw on my cycling shoes....i wanted to be able to look down at my feet if at any part during the bike ride i thought i was hurting or it was getting tough and i would think about her and how tough she is and how nothing during the race could be as tough as what she is having to put her body thru right now...
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This was my first HIM! I had a great experience and will do it again! Thanks to all who planned, executed and volunteered! Well run event!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Overall a tough course. The swim portion was great and I was glad to have a wetsuit. Bike course was rugged. Lots of chip seal, cracks and fissures in the road. Lots of turns. More gravel than anticipated. Glad I brought my road bike and not the tri-bike. Although, I should've added some clip-on aerobars because the headwind on the last 20 miles was brutal. The heat took its toll on the run, lots of people were hurting. Could've done without the off-road portion of the run but that's mainly because of an injured foot. This was a fun race, very challenging, and very rewarding. I have a time to beat.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I actually enjoyed this experience. The road conditions could not be controlled by the race organizers, so I won't hold them responsible. Thus I rate the race excellent. Will probably do this again next year after I train a bit better.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The pre race check in seemed a bit of a mess. Lots of standing in line. But race day was smooth.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I thought the race was very well organized and well put on. The roads were rough with some cracks but overall not horrible. Aid stations were great and tons of support. I don't think you could ask for much more!
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