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Race Reports for Callaway Gardens Triathlon 2010

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Race rating (2)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: In 30yrs, the race director has been lucky not getting someone killed on the course with the traffic. IT NEEDS TO CHANGE. Either make the race earlier, delay the opening a while, or close the gates during the race. Transition was NOT secured. People wandered through there at their own will. People rode their bikes through transition without issue. Transition was VERY WIDE OPEN. Lack of volunteers. Good venue, good course, but poor organization!
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: heard a rider got hit by a car. That puts a damper on your ranking as far as I'm concerened. Overall it was a good race. Not Team-Magic caliber, but still pretty darn good.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Need someone monitoring the turn around on the run. I didn't see anyone do it but you could easily turn around far short of the distance as there was no one checking to see that you went to the turnaround point. The bike needs a marked dismount line. You are riding along and then there is the timing mat. Callaway Gardens is a great venue but the traffic continues to be a safety issue. One biker was injured by a car pulling out in front of him. Others complained of cars slowing them down because they were blocking the roads. The mile markers were not accurate. Mile 2-3 was short, mile 3-4 was long. Transition area has bike racks. Some were using trees to lean their bikes against, right beside the bike out. Maybe there is no rule about where to put your bike as long as you are in the transition area but that just seemed odd. Beautiful place that I will continue to use for running and biking.
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I really enjoyed the race course. The lake was seemed clean and the water temp was nice. The bike course was great. Very scenic. The run course was through the Callaway woods then finished by hooking around the lake. Very nice course. However, the organization was poor. No athlete info packet. Body marking was nowhere near the transition area. You had to figure that out on your own. The bike and run courses were not closed to traffic - an athlete was hit by a car while on his bike. Hardly any voluteers. No signs inticating where to enter and exit the tranition area during the race. Since I've done a few of these I was able to figure this stuff out on my own. If this was my first tri - I would have had no idea what was going on. Great course - just a poorly organized event.
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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: Overall this is a great place to hold a race... I just think they need to find a way to closed the bike course to traffic.. There are some blind spots on the bike leg and with the cars could be dangerous..
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Comments: Beautiful day for racing - 4 or so secs faster than 2008
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