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Race Reports for Rock 'N RollMan Sprint Triathlon 2009

[1]

Comments: Overall, a well run and great event. Great volunteers!!! The only minus was the timing snafu.

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[2]

Race rating (5)

Comments: This was a very well-run race. From the volunteers, of which about 25 were from the Atl. Tri Club, to the post-race food and awards (nice trophy my wife got), everything seemed to go very smoothly. Gotta commend Set Up Events for running a good event. I'll definitely come back to race it again and hopefully be better prepared for the hills next time.

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Race rating (5)

Comments: I really love this race. I like the location, the lake, the organization. I was slightly disappointed when I learned that the swim was long. I don't think it was due to their measuring, I think it was something about a buoy that we weren't supposed to go around, but everyone did. I have an email in to them asking if they at least could tell me the distance so I have a better idea of my performance. I think I paced everything just right. Even though it's only a sprint, there's still some need for pacing. It's a fine line between pacing yourself just enough, and pushing too hard that the other two suffer. I sometimes think, could I have swam faster, or biked faster. Probably, but this time, I don't think doing either faster would have been better. I think I would have hurt my bike or my run times which turmed out to be great for me. Had the swim actually had been 820 yards, my overall time would have been about 3 minutes under my goal time. So while I was not really close to an

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