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Race Reports for TryCharleston Half 2013

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[1]

Reported by:

barcaray

Race rating (3)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: No race shirts, a crappy hat that says nothing about the race distance we were doing, no post race messages, took forever for age group awards to be handed out. I'm not a difficult person to please, but this years race seemed way off from the past standards.

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[2]

Reported by:

matthewwise

Race rating (5)

• 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:


• Comments: Try Charleston and Setup Events put on a great race. The post race food and awards were great! I look forward to racing with them again! This year was their first year for a two transition race. The organizers did a great job communicating logistics and providing transportation between the transition areas for both athletes and spectators.

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[3]

Reported by:

clemson05

Race rating (2)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?Yes


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


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


• Comments: I hate to give a bad review to any race because I can't even imagine how hard it is to organize something this massive. However, I am sure the race reports will show that most people were frustrated and just not satisfied with how this race was run. It seems as though the sprint people had more to complain about than I did because the bike turn around was not marked and many people missed it completely. I have done other setup events in the past and they were run much more smoothly so I may try this one again but this race did not leave me with a favorable impression. There were not enough bike course volunteers to show where to turn and the traffic was a bit scary in a few places. The run course had good water stations but there were a few big potholes in the run path covered up by rain water and no one ever bothered to put a cone or sign out to warn the runners. I personally saw quite a few twisted ankles and other injuries from these holes. The medical tent had 1 person

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[4]

Reported by:

jlhoward

Race rating (3)

• 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: Overall a decent race for level of training recently put in, swim was comparable to B2B (no current this time), transitions were faster (albeit short T1 distance here), bike was faster, only the run was really suspect versus previous half. In the end, while it was cold, windy and raining at the start, the rain subsided and the temperatures really worked to my advantage.

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[5]

Reported by:

navybeaver

Race rating (3)

• 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: Too hard


• Comments: Major issue with bike transport the morning off the race. Also, on the sprint version a bunch of guys got to the turnaround before anybody was at the turn and they rode way too far. Several corners were not well marked and did not have police support. Post race food was water and coke. The event in 2012 was very well put together with regular facebook updates but this year the weather was bad, the was very little communication, and at packet pickup you got useless visors or ugly hats, no shirts were provided.

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