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Race Reports for Leon's World's Fastest Triathlon 2013

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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

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

  • Comments: Horrible experience!
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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: I rated the race a 4 mostly due to it being the Best of the US Amateur race, not Leons. The bike was not as fast or fun as I'd hoped, nor scenic,there were crappy roads and, well, it was stinky in the industrial area. I had a blast with Cathleen, Brian and my hubby. The weather sucked (nobody controls that) and it would have been fun to hang out and have that beer I earned (but was too frozen to drink) afterwards. It was awesome to be "kind of a big deal" and hang out with some seriously speedy peeps at the race, and be left in their dust on race day! I highly recommend doing a BOUS race if you qualify!!!
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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: Great production and event organization. Not my favorite bike course. I'm still waiting for the official email from USAT, but I'm pretty sure I qualified for nationals with this one. This has been a goal since last summer, so if I made it, I'll be pretty stoked. I've always enjoyed tri's, but the drive to make nationals took a little bit of the fun out of it for me because, frankly, I was stressing and fearing putting the work in and not making the goal. If I've made it, I'll be thrilled, and I feel like I'll be able have a lot more fun with it again.
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I was a bit upset about the changes in the last week of the race. I feel they could have been communicated better and earlier. Making the packet pickup mandatory at the last minute was not fair. This race had always allowed same day packet pickup in the past. Making this change at the last minute was not fair to the out of towners. Closing transition down a half hour before the first wave and a full hour before the last wave, especially on a cold day when a proper warm-up is essential, was a bad call. Further, this was not communicated to the racers until race day. I would have brought another pair of running flats I could have kept outside of transition had I known. There were no race instructions in the packet that should have contained important information like above. There weren't as many flats this year, but I still saw quite a few racers off the side of the road. I just don't see paying $165 for this race again. I've done this race three years now, I think
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  • Comments: I'm proud that I did it & finished based on the conditions and my mental state before the race. I know the conditions sucked, but it's still a disheartning to see that I was 8 minutes slower this year as compared to last year -- when it was my second triathlon ever! My swim really needs to be better. I know you can't win it on a swim. But my swim really does suck. And I know my bike is pretty good, but I wanna average at least 20. And I wanna learn to figure out how to push myself harder on the bike. I wanna my bike & wheels & helmet to be worth the money i spent. I did way better on the run that I thought i did. I'd like to get it down to 8:30 or under. But it didn't feel like I was doing an 8:38 pace. And no garbage guts for the first time ever.
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