Race Reports for Master's Championship Tri

[1]

Race rating (2)

Comments: Pizza was cold and picked over by the time the olympic distance competitors were finishing. We were told by race officials when we picked up our packet that they had moved the race start from 8:00am to 7:15am. When we arrived, we set up our transition and at 7:00 headed down to the swim start. No one was there. We asked an official about the race time and he stated that they decided to start at 8am. They ended up starting the sprint distance at 7:45 and olympic at 7:50. Very confusing and frustrating for racers.

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[2]

Race rating (3)

Comments: The actual race is good. The race organization was not good. From packet pick up where we had to wait 10 minutes to have someone come over and help us. They had plenty of volunteers, but I guess only certain people were authorized to give out the race packets and they were busy doing other stuff. The mix up with the race start times was disappointing. They started taking down transition while people were still out on the race course. They had sprints and Olympic distance races and the pizza was probably hot and a plenty for the sprint finishers, but us Olympics were left with cold pizza and were lucky to get any. The had bananas, but no gatorade or water, except you did get a bottle water at the finish. They didn't have all of the plaques for the all of the events. We weren't affected, but there were quite a few that had to have their plaques mailed to them. Oh and we had to pay $3 to get into the park. After paying $80 for this race, at leatst they could let the athletes in the park for

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