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Race rating (5)

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: After the rain stopped this turned out to be a great event. Perfect weather through out and the wet road didnt make much of a difference to me. I ended up getting a PR on the triathlon overall, which completely blew my mind. Plus I got to meet a couple of BTers.

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Race rating (5)

Organised?Yes
Events on time?

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

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

Comments: Tom Ryan did a great job organizing this race. I will definitely try to compete in all his races.

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Race rating (4)

Organised?Yes
Events on time?

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

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

Comments: My first race! I had a good time even though the weather threatened to call the whole thing off.

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Race rating (5)

Organised?Yes
Events on time?

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

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

Comments: Considering what the race planner (Tom Ryan) was up against... rain/thunder/lightening... he did a great job of getting this race to go off. Even though we started late, we still made it happen. Unfortuantely, the Olympic distance was pretty much scratched, since they had to close off the roads to cyclists at a certain time. I am sure some of those racers were pretty upset about this change. The volunteers were plentiful and I never felt like I didn't know where to turn/go/etc. Overall, I had a great race, and considering that I hardly trained for the swim, and didn't train at all for the run (due to injuries), I think I did pretty darn good! I was just lucky to be out there. I have no complaints. Sure, if it hadn't rained, that would have been *perfect*, as rain puts me in a foul mood... but the race went off and I was just happy to be racing!

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Race rating (3)

Organised?Yes
Events on time?No

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

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

Comments: I didn't miss the sprint turnaround but I heard more than a couple people did. It was easy to miss if you weren't looking, maybe they could mark it better next time. Also the bike racks weren't very organized. I'm probably spoiled by Ironhead and their OCD tendencies, but setting up the racks organized by your bib number is a nice touch. I'm giving it a 3/5 because of the weather, which is obviously completely out of the organizers' control. They did the best they could in the circumstances. If there hadn't been any rain this race would get a 4/5. Tom and crew did a great job dealing with the weather issue, and they held up well when everything could have(literally and figuratively) gone down the drain.

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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: This was a fun race. I almost didn't do it because I thought the lake would be horrible to swim in and my training has been pretty lax lately. It was fun. It was easy to get in and out, the course was pretty good, it was just a good race overall.

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Race rating (4)

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: The funniest part of the day was when the announcer was starting the race, he couldn't see the lake. He had told the first wave to get in the water, then started counting down. Well none of the guys got in the water. They were all huddled up on the shore. Everyone was shouting for them to get in the water...but I dunno, I guess they were addle-brained. The announcer was hilarious. He kept saying "What th...can I cuss on this thing" "This is the first race I've started when nobody started", then he apoligized to all the women *grin* This race was great because I got to hang out with Gina, meet Aaron & Misty (who btw I exchanged numbers with and we're gonna get together to go run soon). Holly & Mom were there. The water was nice. The bike was smooth. The run was entertaining and I GOT HARDWARE.

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