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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Eagleman 2009

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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: Eagleman is a first class event and very well organized. There's enough of everything and I really do enjoy the course. I actually would like some hot food than cold afterwards. Minor issue, though. The food is pretty good I thought overall. Additional reporting comments on what happened after I finished: I stop to allow the nice volunteers to take my chip and give me my finishing medal. I'm moving very slowly ahead to the gatorade table and grab one to take along as I get out of the way of others. I considered going to the medical tent, but I didn't think I was feeling that bad. Just tired and my legs hurt a great deal. I really just needed to get food, drink, and sit in a chair a spell. So I go and grab some chow, thanking all the nice volunteers I saw there. Now after I have food, I don't dare sit on the ground as I'm afraid I won't get back up. So, I find a chair by a table and this suits me just fine. Eventually my friend Mike joins me too and we discuss the race.
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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: Yet another well run CTA event. This was my 4th year doing the race, 3rd finish (dropped out during the run last year). I finished, but it was not really that great of a race overall. Good swim, okay bike, crappy "run." Time still puts me in the upper half of the field, but c'mon, will I ever really be happy with that??? Of course not. I decided (for real this time) that I really don't enjoy long distance races and that I will not be signing up for anymore until I have adequate time to train. The experiences are just not pleasant for me and I have no desire to make every long distance event a suffer fest later in the event. Until I can seriously train for them and put in the sort of time that I know I need to compete, I'm not going to waste any more money on it. Aside from the fact that I seem to have a beter capacity to go pretty fast for shorter distances and sustain it. So that is what I'm going to stick with.
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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: Eagleman is a tough test, but a very well run event. The volunteers are wonderful, as are the locals in general. For the 2nd year, we were hosted by a wonderful family, and had a great time.
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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 PRed my HIM time by 2 minutes which is cool but I wanted to go under 5:30 which I think I should have done. The race itself was awesome. I will do it again this year. It was also good that TriDelaware had a strong showing. I think there were 15 of us there. We just need a better tent!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This is a fantastic race. I've done two 70.3 races and both have been at Eagleman. The atmosphere and the volunteers are great!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

  • Post race activities?
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  • Comments: It's only my second tri ever and my first 70.3, but this one seemed well run. I know there were some complaints from the fast people who started behind me about having to pass slower people like me, and complaints from the slower waves behind me that it was very lonely. I guess there's no perfect situation. The volunteers were good and the aid stations well stocked. I think it was a great race and would recommend it and strongly consider doing it again.
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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: Major thanks goes out to the Cambridge Police. My bag with all the stuff that I didn't need in transition (keys, wallet, cell, clothes) was outside of transition. Some kids tried to run off with it while I was racing, but got caught by the police. They stored my bag in the swat truck until I recovered it.
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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: My only comment is to get better food. Cold pasta as the only main course? C'mon! Pizza? BBQ? I just busted my ass - gimme some *FOOD*!!!
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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: Other than possibly starting the waves differently (see bike course above), I feel like the race was run VERY well. The volunteer support was excellent. The fan support was good in places, and non-existent in others. I would HIGHLY recommend this race.
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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: Pretty impressed with the race organization. Really couldn't have done much better. The course is kind of boring. The crowd support is fantastic.
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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: From the perspective of organization and support, this was a great event. I underestimated the course thinking that no hills would translate into a stupid fast bike split. I have been humbled. But, I did HTFU. I never cried :) and I have my finishers medal!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • 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: A very average organised race in my opninion having done 2 other IM races this would be at the bottom of that list.
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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: Very organized and lots of volunteers. Can't even remember how many aid stations were out on the run because there were so many of them! This race will be on my list for next year. I'd also like to thank Rick (Daremo) for coaching me for the past 6 months for this race. I feel like I've made big improvements in all three sports and I'm confident that I will continue to improve. :)
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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:

  • Comments: Very well run event. The completely exposed out and back run is a little bit un-inspiring, but I don't really see any other options for the run given where the event is located. I enjoyed the race - but not entirely sure I will do it again, just because hot, sunny, runs with no shade are not my favorite... Also, starting in the last wave was kind of a bummer - put me out on the run course late in the day with little company (not entirely by myself, but not very many racers left out on the course with me....) IMO they should send Athenas off earlier in the race. The last wave was 45-49 females & Athenas. Coincidentally, all but 2 Athenas in the race were aged 45 - 49.... I'm sure other women who might normall race athena went off with their age group waves instead. I know I would have if it had been an option, but I would have been in the last wave either way, so just went ahead and raced Athena. I'm sure this race would have a larger Athena grouping if they put them in an
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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 is my 2nd time at this distance. I have come a long way. I now feel about this distance as I did in year 2 of Olympics. Hard enough, but I know that I can do them. I am in the best shape of my life and now in my 4th year of this sport am really getting the hang of it. Lisa and I experimented, and we know that we shouldn't, on race day with nutrition. We bought some Hammer Perpetuem and Endurolytes. Wow, this stuff works. We made the paste for flask containers, liquid in our bottles. This along with water in the Aero bottle fueled me just fine on the bike. I did not bring any of this with me on the run. And I ran out of gas at mile 11 Overall, this was a great race for me. I can do this distance, now I can learn how to do it better.
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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 fantastically run race. It is so well supported and staffed. The aid stations were great with the ice, water, gatorade, gus and everything else. Volunteers were so friendly and the course is nice and flat!
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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 top notch race. Very well organized, the volunteers were all over the place and very friendly and the course is very fast (a little boring but very fast).
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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: incredible volunteers. plenty of aid stations course was well marked on the run.
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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:

  • Comments: I sure would have liked ice towels/sponges on the run course but I understand how much expense and manpower they add to a race. LOVE IT when a race has them but understand when they don't. This is a quality race, very well organized and supported, and I am very happy that I did it. With that said, I think I can also say that I've been here and done it and don't need to come back and do it again. There wasn't anything here to make me feel like I NEED to do it again versus experiencing a new race/venue. I think the only race I've ever done that I feel that way about is the Steamtown marathon which I have done twice and would love to do several more times.
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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: Really enjoyed my first Eagleman experience!!! Look forward to returning and hopefully improving!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: Eagleman is a flat, flat course and we had a great day weather-wise. A bike Penalty, nutrition screw-up and port-a-potty stop cost me a sub 5:15, but I'm still satisfied with the overall results and I learned a lot. I can't beat myself up too badly as I only started biking and swimming 1 year and 7 months ago, and my very first triathlon was only 15 months ago. I know if I continue to consistenly train and learn, perhaps in 2011 I'll return to Eagleman and get my Sub 5. It was really cool seeing all the women Pro's coming past me on the run. Congrats to James G who went SUB 5!! And a huge congrats to Fred who destroyed this course with a 4:38. All the volunteers were Awesome as usual, and I met a ton of people and just had a blast while down in Maryland.
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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: Such a well run event. The crowd support, the well stocked and manned aid stations, everything. There was not a single thing I experienced that could cause me to say anything negative about the support and event, it was an absolute blast!
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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'm going to jump on the soap box real quick....i saw more than one occurence of a racer being rude to a volunteer. one jerk guy pitched a fit because he couldn't take his bike out a certain exit after the race. what was wrong with the other two exits that they offered?! maybe they should just let you go out anywhere. this would make it nice and easy for me to just take your expensive as hell bike and leave you my overstock special as a gift. jerk. on the way out, i thanked the woman checking numbers. as i was walking away i heard her say to another volunteer that it was nice getting thanked "after all the grief she has gotten today". absolutely ridiculous. we wouldn't have a race without these people. be nice for the love of god.
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  • Comments: This is a good race. I liked it. The only thing I didn't like was the boredom of the run. That could be my problem - I don't want to blame the race for that ;-) I would certainly do this race again.
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