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Race Reports for SPRING Hawk Island Triathlon - Sprint 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Hawk Island is a good race for beginners. The overall environment was friendly. The water is fairly clear (it can get murky at the start), and it is a small, protected lake. Waves and chop are likely to be minimal. The bike course has some gentle hills. Wind was calm today, but my previous race there (2012) had a stiff wind. The running trails are smooth, quite flat, and wind through light woods.
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  • Comments: I never knew there were so many options and drop down menus in this format. Just going to spew off a few thoughts instead. For me personally: Even though I was freezing and hated the race while it was happening, I kept telling myself 6 months of training with my team and running in the winter, I can do this. This isn't a USAT sanctioned event but you can self-seed into the "eilte" start if you think you can finish in the "elite wave" time (1 hour for men, 1:10 for women). I think I was 10th female overall, and with improved conditions I know I would be at least 3 minutes faster just because of transition times, so I am pretty pleased with my overall 1:21 and looking forward to continued improvement. Race overall: There's no overall ranking in the results, so I counted the women's times that were faster than me, which is how I think I was 10th female. Also no total number, but 250-300 participants in the sprint, so I was maybe 10th out of 150ish women. I wish the start and check-in
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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: Love it. Will race this every year as the season opener!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I know I am capable of going under an hour on this course. Fixing the swim, doing transitions properly, being healthy on the run, and a bit strong on the bike will make it happen next year.
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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: Great first race experience, there was a balance of first timers and seasoned veterans to learn from. Enjoyed clinics on Sat.
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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: I'll be back!!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: My goal was to finish at a max of 1:06:00. So I was very happy with my performance. I never felt totally out of breath or in need to rest and catch up. I felt that my entire race was smooth and controlled (except the swim, which was chaos).
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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 2nd year racing at Hawk Island and my wife and sister's first. I feel that it is a great race for beginners and also seasoned and faster athletes. The atmosphere was terrific and the volunteers were great. It is a great race to start the year off with and I will be back next year.
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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: Love that I can bike to the race. This was my first tri five years ago and it is awesome to see and talk to people that are doing the race for their first tri. The race is very organized and think it's pretty cool that they are going for 'green' certification. Can't wait for next years race.
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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: A return to the race where I hurt my shoulder in 2010. I only rated the race overall a 4 because we have a local 5k that has Subway cater the post-race, a hard act to follow otherwise it was an excellent race.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I don't want to say it was 'the best' because I have nothing to compare it to, but it was a very good event, at least; it was very fun, and barring doing another race next year instead, will happily sign up for this one.
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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 triathlon was my first-ever four years ago... and I've been back for every one since. I love this race and the atmosphere. The volunteers are great and everything is very well run.
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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: South Lansing Community Development always does a great job organizing this event. From the start times, course layout and volunteers - it's ALWAYS run on par with the best event organizers!
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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: Overall this was a great race for beginners to seasoned racers. I will for sure be back next year, Lansing does a great job putting this race on. I am hard on myself and competitive so the swim really bothered me but I am happy for where I placed in my age group and overall.
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  • Comments: I will be back next year, hopefully with a fully recovered shoulder to complete this race.
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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: Felt WAY too good Monday morning when I got up. Will definitely try to push harder next time. I had fun during the race however, and I think it was the best organized triathlon I've done yet.
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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: Love this race and look forward to doing it every year. Only comment would be that it was difficult to drink out of the plastic cups during the run.
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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 like this race except for the swim and the rough roads. Its a great distance for the first race of the year and its nice seeing tons of BT people there. I did manage to beat my time from last year by about 7 minutes so I'm happy with my results.
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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: Very fun for my first race. I signed up with my cousin and brother and it was the first race for all of us. We train together and my brother beat me by 42 secs. My cousin finished 46 secs after me. We're all signed up for Anchor Bay, so that should be a good rematch!
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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 HAWK-I tri. Great start to my TRI season and was happy with my performance. Gave me some great insight on where to focus my next few weeks training for the bulk of the tri season. Also affirms for me that I need to practice transition area so I can improve instead of winging it on race day.
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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: Good race, but keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. Not sure if they can accomodate any more people than the 800. Hoping they don't allow anymore and keep it where it is at. Trouble hearing the swim starter. You could not hear the wave or age groups being announced. Need to be much more louder. Again hoping they change up the swim somehow so people are not swimming over each other. Lots of great volunteers. Liked how they opened up the swim course to participants on the Thursday before the race so we could get in feel the course and try things out. Great idea.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: This was a great race, awesome course (except a few potholes on the bike), lots of great volunteers. Couldn't hear the start of the swim waves very well, and needed more port-o-potties especially during the race. Minor complaints though as it was well-run.
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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: The organization was excellent, especially considering that there were tornado warnings the night before. Post race BBQ turkey from the Turkeyman was the best race food ever.
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  • Comments: This is always a fun race. It will keep me coming back year after year.
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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: Hawk Island is a great little (not so little anymore) race and it's well run...which is why I keep coming back. I always have a great time.
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