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Race Reports for Challenge Knoxville - Olympic Course 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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The rain is the only downer, Rev3 does it right.
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: While the conditions of the race were terrible, Rev3 did everything in their power to make it a good event. There was lots of support on the race course. They handed out mylar blankets at the finish to help racers warm up. They even had a couple of rooms at the hotel that you could go into and warm up after the race. A huge thank you to all of the Rev3 volunteers who were so supportive and stood in the rain all day so that we could race!
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Loved the race. The course markings are awesome -- arrows on the pavement before, during, and after turns as well as signs. The volunteers were awesome. Will definitely race with Rev3 again!
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: As my first Rev3 race I have to say this was a very fun, well-run event and I am looking forward to our next one. It is too bad the weather turned out the way it did as a number of the fun family events that Rev3 is known for were cancelled, but the entire management and volunteers were awesome through-and-through. Even though we had to race in pretty crumby conditions, at least we could get in and out of the rain - the rev3 folks were in it all night and all day. It will have to be after IMLP, but we are already trying to figure out what our next one will be - since we all did fairly well in our respective divisions it would be fun to try and secure a spot in their AG championship race which will be in Knoxville next year. For those of you who have asked about her, here is a picture of our post-op kitty. Since her surgery she is starving all the time and for some reason she has decided that if she sits in her food bowl she might get fed a little faster. She is going to be in the
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[5]
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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? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I am glad I did this race because I need to do a race just to see where I am at. The results have not been turned into USAT so i do not know if I qualified for AG nationals or not. Now I want to actually got to race the ride instead of fighting to keep the tires to the ground :)
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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: Weather conditions were brutal. Alot of folks DNS or DNFed due to the weather and a few folks got a trip to the ER for Hypothermia including one of the folks I got help for. Had warmup room in the local hotel and great support on the course and finsih and transitions. Great job by the Rev 3 crew on a nasty day. Weather sucked but the race was great and I was pretty happy.
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Race rating (3)
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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: I wish the weather would have cooperated. The venue would be awesome. I love Knoxville and every part of the race is scenic and challenging. Before the race the MC (Steve). Was having electronic troubles so he moved underneath the roof by the bathrooms. He was great and kept everyone positive. Other Rev3 "bigwigs" walked around and Steve would point them out. They too would stop and talk with athletes which I thought was awesome. Steve played music and danced and joked around which helped me wait in the cold. I think everything would have been awesome, but I think we got about 3 inches of rain Saturday and Sunday which was a total buzzkill for extracurricular activities. Giving it a 3 but to be fair I had a blast and I could see all the friendly atmosphere that Rev3 puts out. Without the rain I bet everything would have been an easy 5
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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: Race was great and organized very well. Volunteers were awesome throughout! I want to do this again! My nutrition: Swim: 1 tropical hammer gel 15-20 minutes before swim start with water Bike: Drank about 90% of 20oz water bottle and 75% of 20 oz perform bottle, took equivalent of 2.25 hammer gels. Gels taken at beginning of bike and sipped every 30 minutes from gel flask Run: water on the way out of transition. 2 total gels at aid stations 2 and 5, water most of the run with some Gatorade. Had to force the gels on the run, didn't want them.
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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: Hard to separate out the race from the conditions. Swim walk to start and transition to bike were long, but I think they made the right calls. Just the nature of the set-up. Bike course would have been pretty nice on a good day. Probably the most climbing on a course I've done... which is actually kind of a nice change of pace. Thanks so much to the volunteers and police doing the traffic. It had to be awful to be out in that mess for hours. Since Karen was there, she even snapped a couple of pictures. Usually I'm solo, so 'tis a rarity to have a few snapshots.
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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: This was a good race despite the rain and the cold. I think this would be so fun in better weather! I hope to maybe do this again next year! I know I complained a lot in this report, but that was mostly about mother nature. REV3 does an excellent job!
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Rev3 couldn't help the weather, and I'm glad they didn't adjust the event. It was well-planned, had plenty of aid stations and volunteers, and they really tried their best to have a great race in pretty terrible conditions.
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