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Race Reports for Desert International Triathlon 2011

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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: I pretty much just treated this race as practice for my upcoming longer distance races (Wildflower, Vineman). I've had two biking accidents in the last two months, and barely started resuming training after the second accident just a week before this race. I was a little frustrated afterward, but thinking back on how far I've come from last year despite my setbacks, I feel blessed to be alive and walking, let along racing.
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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 noticed that there were a lot of super fit people at the race expo the day before. It seems like this race attracts a lot of good atheletes. Plus there were a lot of Tri Teams competing too. It is a great event and an excellent race to break into the Olympic Distance.
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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: I took over an HOUR off of my last Olympic distance race. I was quite happy!
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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?Yes

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

  • Comments: I think I'm being hard on myself. If I didn't have access to other people's results I would honestly be the happiest girl in the world. I trained so fucking hard, I raced as hard as I could, and finished in my A goal. I set 3 goals and I literally accomplished my A goal! It was my second triathlon and first olympic so I'm just going to be proud of myself. I can't wait to see how much I can improve over the years!
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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?No

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

  • Comments: The weather conditions couldnt have been any better. Flat course made for fast times.
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Race rating (3)
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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: This is a good race. The race director seems to care about the event and it doesn't seem like it's all about the bottom line. The course is easy and this year the weather was very good for an early season race. If anything, it got a bit hot on the run, but all in all, I can't complain. The run course is known for being a little short and this year, I think the swim course may have been a bit long. Either that, or last year it might have been a bit short - there was some wind last year and the current may have brought the far buoy in a bit? Anyway, conditions were a non-factor. It was a good workout and nice to hang out with training buds. I felt lucky to have Monica there to sherpa for me.
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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? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Well organized, nice race.
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Race rating (3)
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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: Too easy

  • Comments: This is a great kick off the to season. It's an easy course that allows for a good workout if you're already in training for a bigger race, or is a great course to use for preseason evaluation of yourself. The race result rankings seem a little screwy, so the numbers I used for my overall position in each event is based on sorting result by time and then counting to find myself. It was always different than what they had listed.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I think there should have been one more water station on the run. It was getting really hot and dry out there and the water stops were almost 2 miles apart. (at about 1/4 mile, then not again till almost mile 2 - repeat on lap 2) On m second loop, the second station was out of cups and just pouring water in to our mouths right from the 2.5 gallon jugs. (oh well, I got water and a cool off at the same time)
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[10]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: As always they do a great job on this race. At the finish line, guy said my name and I put my hands up in the air and smiled. Hope they got that one on film. ;) Well run event. They could have had some oranges and more bananas and maybe one more water station on the run, but overall another great event my Klein-Clark sports. My 4th year doing this tri. It was my first...you always remember your first. That one was a sprint tri though. Had an awesome talk with the woman I drove out with -- a good friend who had also recently lost someone she loved so we were able to share some stories and listen to each other -- very healing.
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