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Race Reports for RiverWinds Triathlon

[1]
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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 was a good local race
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Overall, this was an amazing experience. Seeing people of all shapes, sizes and ages completing this event was awesome. Youngest person I saw was a girl who I think was 15 years old, there was another person doing a duathlon who was 80 years old. It's pretty awesome and every time I passed somebody or was being passed, people would yell over encouragement "way too go" "keep pushing" "your doing awesome". It's really a pretty cool experience. Am I hooked on this sport now? Unfortunately for my my wife, I think I am. This was a blast and I am in the best shape I have been in for the past 20+ years. Time to get a wet suit and practice some swimming in the lake. I think my next Triathlon will be an olympic distance. I can't wait
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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?No

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

  • Comments: I beat my time from last year by almost 5 minutes. I'm real happy!
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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, the race provides a nice indication of your fitness in the beginning of the season and gives you an idea of what you need to improve on through the year.
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[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? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability:

  • Comments: I will do it again next year. Just to prove I don't come in LAST AGAIN!
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[6]
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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: Just right

  • Comments: nice season opener, well organized
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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: Great short early season race. T1 is cold, and the winds were tough this year, but the RD did a good job dealing with the conditions. I will definitely be back!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too easy

  • Comments: The course is short but it's early in the season and the recent crappy weather has not been conducive to training- so I was thankful. It was run very well with lots of police and vols on the bike/run. Received my first medal so happy with that but the performance could have been better. Wish the swim was longer but snaking your way down the pool worked really well. The older racers owned the day... good on them. Definitely will come back next year and hopefully the wind won't be so bad. results: http://dqtridu.com/River11.htm
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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: Freezing cold and windy
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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: Decent race and not sure if I like the pool swim from a competition stand point since you never have any idea if you're ahead or behind anyone.
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[11]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Fun race, cold, but fun. Not all that organized it seems. Transition was looseey goosey, just rack where you please. Wave orders were announced 5 minutes before the swim start and not posted anywhere, no athlete guide, in fact communication over all was pretty lacking compared to other races. That said, I'll definitely do it again next year.
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

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

  • Comments: This was a fun race and I will do it again. I really liked the pool swim. There did not seem to be a ton of volunteers - I'm sure part of that had to do with the awful weather. I do wish we had gotten some emails before the race. I had to double and triple check that I was registered, because I never received any emails until packet pickup. The RiverWinds facility is NICE. I liked the pool and I liked the run. Even before my flat tire, I had recognized that there was crap all over the road. I was not very surprised when I pulled a chunk of glass out of my tire after the race.
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[13]
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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 was a little annoyed about the whole registration mixup. Which also caused me to not get my award (which would have been my first tri award).But I was being a pain in the ass by not registering on time and they were accomodating on race day, so I can't complain too much. Other than that, the race was well run, which helped my first pool swim go smoothly. A good early season race that I'm looking forward to doing again next year.
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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: Was impressed by the race as I know they had issues last year (their 1st). The bike course was very well marked and had great volunteers to make sure you were on the right track. They should probably do a better job of keeping the transition area clean. Since it was an indoor swim there were people coming in off the bike for quite awhile after others finished and it was pretty cluttered at times for the folks trying to get out on their run.
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[15]
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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, I was very happy to get through our first effort safely and under our 2 hour goal. We will both be individually competing at our next race in July, and it was great to do a practice run and find out what we need to work on. I was mostly thrilled that I still felt good at the end of my bike - I didn't gasp across the line, and I felt like I still had plenty of reserves left so than I can do the run next time.
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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: OK race. It was inaugural, and very small, so I guess you can't expect too much. Not having day-of packet pickup was very inconveniant; driving 3:30 to NJ on a Friday afternoon up 95 was NOT my idea of a good afternoon/evening. There weren't any spectators (small town, inaugural race?) and post-race food was mediocre (lots of muffins and stuff- most athletes I'm guessing aren't really looking for pure sugar foods! I wanted more healthy options). But they did a really good job for a first tri for the association and the area.
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