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Race Reports for Jerseyman Half Iron 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: Was great to meet a fellow BT'r at the race and have someone to talk to prior. Fred was smoking on the bike but lost a huge amount of time to a wrong turn. He went flying by me at mile 20 or so and I thought something was wrong because he was out of T1 ahead of me. He also got some bad directions on the run and ended up calling it a day. I felt bad for him because he was on fire on the bike and could have posted a pretty special time. His bike split was pretty awesome even with the missed turn. I thought this was a very challenging course overall and a good prep for LP. The race was well run and had a lot of very nice, helpful volunteers. Only downside was there were a lot of turns and you really had to pay attention or you could miss one. (I did and so did Fred.) Overall I would recommend this race. After race BBQ was very good with burgers, perogies, dogs and drinks. Nicely done NJ Multisport!
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Race rating (3)
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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: They ran out of hamburger buns so my hamburger was on a split hot dog bun. They also somehow ran out of finishers medals which is weird because they pride themselves on the medals.
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: I think this race has a lot of potential to become "one of the premier half iron distance races on the east coast", but they have some work to do. They need more community support and volunteers lined up. They need a better finishing area. They need to accurately lay out the courses, provide mile markers and sufficient aid and to ensure that everyone gets a chance to finish. They need to bill it more accurately as a challenging race course and they may need to reconsider the run course as there were many people left out there running through that big intersection after the cops had called it a day. Yeah, the weather really screwed things up for them as I'm sure its tough enough to pull an event of this magnitude together under the best circumstances, but people need to feel safe out there and I think they fell short on this. Also, its a big deal for a lot of folks to finish a race of this length and difficulty and they should have provided more fanfare around that. Not saying I won't
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