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Race Reports for Portland Triathlon - Olympic Course 2015

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  • Organised?No
  • 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: Too easy

  • Comments: Race course for swim (I was 10 min faster on swim here than at my other olympic tri, as were my 3 friends) and bike (advertised 40km, actually 23.68 miles) are both very short. This would be fine except they pretend the course is correct and say, "Great course to make a PR." This is misleading. Bike has 3 turnarounds for Olympic and tons of bikers -- constantly having to pass. Multiple people I know had timing chip failures and when submitted for correction the time placed was incorrect by 20 minutes. There was a train and they just adjusted people's time in an ad-hoc way on site but if you didn't hear the announcement, your time not adjusted. I was listed on line as 1st in age group but announced as 2nd -- probably the train? Or not knowing that one girl was elite and counting her in my age group? I'm thinking to skip this next year for these reasons.
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