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Race Reports for New England Season Opener Sprint Duathlon

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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: Max Performance are very well organized in their races, and this was no exception. The volunteers were cheerful and helpful and the post race food (pulled pork in my case) was tasty. All in all well done!
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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 hard

  • Comments: This was my first Max Performance race, and they clearly know what they're doing. Everything was very smooth and problem-free. The volunteers knew what they were doing, and I never had to wonder what to do or where to go. I'm looking forward to at least one other Max Performance race this summer, and maybe more.
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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?

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

  • Comments: Given the swim the last two years, Max Performance really should consider pushing race back a couple weeks or have this just be a duathlon. Typical MA weather does not set up this race for good situation with lots of newbies, cold water and/or cold weather, makes it a bit risky. No other race organization does open water swim tris until June and this race this year was 4 weeks earlier than any other ows tri in MA. Logic points out that this is a risky weather time to do a tri. I won't sign up to do this tri again perhaps the du and plan on doing it. I'm happy no one was injured during swim as I was quite concerned when I heard all the emergency vehicle responding to tri. The weather forecast was right 34 real feel, winds of 20 mph and gusts to 50. If those factors had been taken into account swim should have been canceled. I do realize that conditions changed after first swim wave started. But it wasn't as if this was completely unexpected but forecast. I understand that many
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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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: Maybe post race, get people to work with Newbies and get some mentoring at that point.
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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 chose to sign up for the duathlon because the weather is iffy around Mother's Day here and I am not a strong enough swimmer to do this race in this kind of weather. I think Tim's races are very well organized and he pays great attention to the athletes and the details. In the individual results, I show as 3/4 in my AG, so despite the lack of tangible hardware (they calculated the leader results some other way - who knows?), I will score this as a win. Despite the cold weather and wind, I had a good time. Plenty of racks, the check-in was efficient, plenty of water and potties. Caterer was OK, food was good but he was understaffed and insisted on tea-spooning the food out himself. Smarter minds than mine will figure out what the heck happened out there in the water.
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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: Well done race by Max performance. I'll do it again.
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Comments: Definately my best race of the season. Other than the T1 fiasco, had a great race. I think racing a lot has made a huge difference.
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