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Race Reports for Savageman 70.0 2010

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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: Awesome production -- Fabulous volunteers -- Breathtaking Course. Will certainly do it again but won't necessarily do it every year.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Overall time was 5:57:43, a good 90+ minutes faster than my 2008 time of 7:29+. Plus no tears…finished like a man. I consider the score settled at this point. Time was good for 10th place AG (out of 68). Interestingly enough, in 2008 I also finished 10th AG (albeit out of only 18 in AG) and my time this year would have been good for second place in AG in 2008. This tells me that since receiving the distinction as being the hardest triathlon in the world from Triathlete magazine a lot more studs are coming out to race it. On top of it all I will be receiving my second brick for making it up The Wall without falling or unclipping. So “another brick in the wall” will be bearing my name in Westernport.
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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: The race is too hard for my ability, that's TRUTH. It's Savage Man. Good to see a lot of you from the BT SM forum!
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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: Amazing venue, great organization, great volunteers, very family friendly
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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: When I previewed the bike course with some BT buds, I said this race would probably be a "one and done" kind of race for me. I completely take that back. The scenery, the spectators, volunteers, and everything else made this an awesome event, and one I'd definitely do again. I'd also recommend it - with the caveat that you should be a strong cyclist before really attempting. I thought the shwag was good - I loved that we got a tech T and arm warmers. One minor quibble is the lack of a finisher's medal. I know most people say they don't care and it helps keeps costs down (a major plus!), but I just love having a medal to show for the efforts. I guess I'll have to settle for a brick with my name on it. :-) The post race food was great. I'm a southern boy at heart, so pulled pork it just about the best post race food I can imagine. Couple that with ice cream, and you've got a winner. I loved signs all over the bike and run course. Each and every one made me chuckle.
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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 need to do this again when I am up to par with the bike fitness.
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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 basked in the feeling that i completed something i had been training for for the last 6 months. all the early morning runs and swims, the time on the trainer, everything. i completed the Savageman triathlon and i earned a brick, something i can go back to years later and remind myself of this occassion. thanks to all of you guys whom ive talked with in the discussion forum, shared Inspires with, and had the oportunity to meet. congratulations to all of you who finished this race. Kyle, thank you for such an awesome race. the champions dinner was superb, the shirts are awesome, the brick idea is the bomb, so many helpful and friendly volunteers, every aspect of the race was perfectly executed. What a great place and what a great race. I'm going to try and talk some others in to doing this race in the future because it is SO worth the pain.
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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 really is a great race. It is savage and brutal and may bring you to the brink, but the payoff of crossing that finish line is worth it. Either that, or I am just a sick son-of-a-batch.
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  • Comments: I take 100% responsibility for what went wrong out there. It wasn't a sodium deficit. It wasn't hammer nutrition products. It wasn't that the coke was fizzy and not flat. I simlply raced this too aggressively for my current fitness. Unfortunately, I'm on the down-swing from being very fit this summer for my ironman... which meant I was able to deceive myself into thinking everything was fine... until it wasn't. Nothing below is an excuse... I should have made adjustments to all of these realities... but I'm recording them so I can learn from my mis-execution of this race: I think savageman is hard to pace. The bike is just so hard, and you spend so much time mashing in your easiest gear at a cadence of 40-60 and a HR near your max... and you know it's supposed to hurt... but the line between really blowing up your legs and just regular old savageman pain is very grey. I noticed my HR was pretty high at several parts of the ride where it shouldn't have been. You have to
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