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Race Reports for Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon 2013

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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: This race is just a TON of fun. That's why I've done it more than once! And I'd do it again! I really didn't want to do it THIS year. I was SUPPOSED to do it last year but military training forced me to defer. I didn't have the time/motivation to train this year but since I'm deploying this summer I really couldn't defer again or it would have been 2015 before I could have done the race. So...I came just to finish. And I did. Yet again, my strengths are swimming and the sandladder. And apparently I don't suck at T1 either. Overall I was 25' slower than the last time I did this race. I lost the majority of that on the bike (14'). Swim was faster by about a minute. Lost 1' to T1. Lost a FEW minutes in T2. Lost 6' on the run. Only 17" slower on the sand ladder. This year's swim was more difficult than the last time...8 degrees colder and the waves were a foot or two higher. And it was definitely colder OUTSIDE than in 2009 too! I'm not used to trying to stay warm during
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: The swim was too cold and choppy and the lingering effects impede your body throughout the race. This was the first time someone died at this event, normally held in the summer and not the winter, 46 year old male, suffering a heart attack upon hitting the shockingly cold, rough water.
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  • Comments: Overall a bucket list race - that I have checked. Wife made me promise not to do it again ... Seeing a person pulled out from the water deceased was about all she could handle. Having it this early in the year (rare March race date) made it virtually impossible to properly train back in the Midwest. Not a great race time in any of the three segments but given the DNF rate on this 2013 year, I was happy to cross the finish.
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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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Hope to be back for this one in the future. Just an outstanding experience.
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