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Race Reports for Pumpkinman Triathlon - Half Course 2012

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GatorDeb

Race rating (3)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: The company is notorious for running out in stations and emails in the past haven't helped, they just don't care, it seems, and slower people get the short end of the stick. Volunteers had left a biking trail at the end of the bike leg and the one sign was ambiguous and I mostly got through correctly by luck and checking the ground for gel packets and bottle debris that assured me I was in the correct path. No excuse to run out of Gatorade and cups (some people "recycled" cups, I can reach that point, but didn't in this tri) in a Half. When they already know it has happened in the past. And I had emailed them that people had missed turns in that trail in the past and they assured me better markings and more people. NO people and one bad marking. Yep, like they don't care. Post-race: I don't do ice baths. I just don't. I do a warm bath with Epsom salts and that seems to work for me. Minimum soreness and I think with proper run training I would have had NO soreness at all.

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