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Race Reports for 3 Disciplines Festival of Races - Half Iron Triathlon

[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: The race is a great race and 3 Disciplines puts on a great 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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: My stretch goal if I had a great day was 5:30:00. My secondary goal was 6:00:00. Once I knew I had the 6:00:00 goal I backed off a bit. Wish I knew my run time, would have been nice to run a < 2 hr 13.1.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I love this race. Its is challenging and fun. Clean water to swim in and beautiful ride.
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[4]
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This race was my second half. I trained very little this summer and I had a simple goal--I will survive. I did survive. I did finish. The bike course was outstanding. The run course was boring, but thankfully flat. I enjoyed the awards dinner catered by Boston Market. The band was fun. The $7500 in raffle prizes were exciting. The volunteers on the course were where I needed them. Thanks to the East Tawas and all the people of that area for supporting this race.
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[5]
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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: Great Race and location, the awards ceremony was good. They gave away $7,500.00 in prizes. Boston Market catered. The food was good and hot.
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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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: There were a couple girl volunteers at the farthest aid station that just didn't want to be there. Comments like when will they come pick us up so I can go home. And this was on my first loop, when I know I've got another 1.5 hours to go. Other than that everyone was great. Was originally disappointed with the swim course change but after actually finishing the swim, it was great. I really enjoyed the staggered swim start made for a very comfortable swim, almost no contact with other swimmers.
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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: What a great place for a first-ever half IM. I would do this again.
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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: Love this race course and it was nice to have friends and family around for the weekend. The Tawas area is very nice and I hope we can make it back next year. 3D of course didn't have any officials on the bike course. There excuse this year was the volunteer motorcycles didn't show up, I doubt it was ever setup. I only noticed a little bit of blatant drafting and not the pace lines of years past. The numbers for the race looked to be the lowest since the first year. I think that 3D is charging more and really not offering much more for the money, thus the 3 star rating and not a 4. The after party is nice due to all the prizes and we always win a little something there.
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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: Just right

  • Comments: I can understand all the hype about this race now, and I'll be back next year if I can get out of Dodge. Well worth the road trip for you folks looking to PR on a Half IM course. I sliced nearly a 1/2 hour off my last Half from 2010. Wonderful feeling!
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I will be back 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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The race was a great race. 3 Disciplines did a great job on this race. The caterer dropped the ball. IT was nice to have a chiropractor at the finish line.
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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 is a great race. 3D did a great job. The vol. were great. Thanks tawas for letting us invade your town for a day. The only problem was the run was long. I had it at 13.43 and so did a few other people. But overall I loved the new run course. The shade on the run course was great. I am doing IMOO nest year but I will be back in 2013.
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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. It is an excellent course and the city really gets behind the race and supports the athletes. If the rules were enforced and the aid stations were as advertised, this would be a must do race each year. As it is, I will still probably come back again.
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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'll be back. It was fun and I learned from it. I think I was in better bike/run shape in July and June of this year. The month of August I really slacked up and maybe trained 10 days the whole month. It showed, my bike times were off a good 3 miles per hour and my run was slower. Since I am staying on 3rd shift I need to stay on the train after work schedule. This time I tried after work in the morning and when I got up in the afternoon. This caused problems both at home and maintaing the planned schedule.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I love this race and thought 3D get a good job with everything. The swim and bike course are awesome and I really liked the new run course layout. The volunteers were plentiful and directed traffic well. The new finish line layout was also very nice. They basically shut down downtown Tawas for the event and the locals seem to love hosting it. I will be back next year..HIM or Olympic?? Not sure 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This was a nice race, and I feel that 3D did a nice job in putting it on. I do wish that there were course marshalls enforcing drafting rules as there was not one penalty given, and according to others on the course, the 3D truck followed behind one obvious peleton for quite a ways.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: The race itself was well run and reasonably priced for this distance. 3D also threw in a finishers sweatshirt for the half iron distance athletes, which was a nice touch. The volunteers did a good job, but they could have used a little help on the run course. I would recommend this race to athletes considering doing it. I just hope you have a little better weather. The race as far as my experience was very humbling. It had me questioning whether or not I should be doing long-course triathlons. Interstingly, my results were about where I expected in terms of time. Generally when I do a 1/2 I expect a sub-5 hour effort. This time due to my training, etc, I expected a 5:15-5:20 effort. The biggest problem I realized after later reflection is that my heart was just not in it this time.
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[18]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Love the course. Wish the swim would go into deep water first as fighting the walkers is a major pain. There was virtually no water safety, two jet skis and one or two life guards holding on to a buoys for dear life doesn't seem real safe. No marshals on the bike course makes for a lot of cheating. I noticed a 3D vehicle following a small pack for over a mile and figured I'd see some penalty's but they don't even have a column for it on the results page so I doubt they got dinged. The after party was nicer then last year and the run course is a good improvement along with the finish on Newman which made it feel more festive.
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  • Comments: As for the event organization, everything from my perspective went smoothly. Only "complaint" as mentioned was the bike course became kind of lonely towards the end, but that's probably just because I was towards the back of the pack. I thought the finisher's sweatshirt was GREAT. I will definitely be wearing it. I like the gear bag as well, and will likely be using that too. Tech T is nice too.
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[20]
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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 loved the City of Tawas and the area in general..it was fantastic. Minus the aid station problem at the turnaround and the run course being boring and 0.75 miles long it was a good race in a great area.
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[21]
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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: Discovered that the run course was about 3/4 of a mile long. Didn't need that at the end of all this. Learned a lot about how to do this race for next year. Overall, I'm ok with the performance. things can only get better from here.
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[22]
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Race was good and i was satisified except if the run course was really 13.1 i would have broken my goal of under 5 hours but i guess ill just have to do that at cedar point next september
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[23]
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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: Too easy

  • Comments: This race had it's pros and cons. I'm not sure I will do this 1/2 anymore but will likely do one of the shorter distances.
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[24]
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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: Great race especially if you spend a whole weekend in town Extremely flat run, fairly flat bike
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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 loved camping and being able to walk to transition and start/finish of the race from the trailer. We had a lot of fun and plan on doing this one again next year.
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