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Race Reports for White Lake Spring Half 2008

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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: When I checked the preliminary results I looked at the sheets wrong and thought I was 9th out of 24 in the MC group. I was disipointed but decided to stick around for the awards. Well I'm glad I did because when they finally called the Master Clyds class for third place they gave the time first and I said to myself "hey that's my time", than said my name "hey that's my name!" It was a complete surprise.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: The good and bad of Set-Up events: I'll fill this in later...
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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: I did not have the issues others did with water stations on the bike except for having to dodge people stopping to get water. One of the blessings of carrying all your nutrition on the bike.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Nice race location. Will do this one again next year.
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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  • Comments: SetUp always puts on top notch events, this was no exception. The run aid stations were stellar. There wasn't much left in the way of post race food by the time I got done but that would be my only complaint.
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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: Overall, this was a fantastic race! Would love to do it again and actually run the last leg. Great weather, environment, volunteers, aid stations. Had a wonderful 1st half ironman experience. I didn't finish fast, but I finished!
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  • Comments: I like the venue and really enjoy 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? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The run course was awful. This was the worst I have seen in my limited experience. To have all the runners on the shoulder of the road going both directions is not good. It makes it very difficult to pass and stay in the rules of the race which said that the participants were not allowed to enter the lanes of traffic. The shoulders in places were 2 feet wide. Not cool. Other than that it was a great event and I would recommend it to anyone.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Good organization at the transitions, start and finish. Water stations during the bike portion were horrible. Run course is not good to say the least. Post race grub (hot dogs and red beans with rice) was below average, but at least there was plenty of food.
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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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Despite my challenges, I felt like I was ready for this race. Even during the run, my limiting factor wasn't my cardio as much as it was battling the heat and electrolyte imbalances. I got thru the bike and swim in Zone 2 heart rates or below. I felt pretty good when I finished...much better than I expected. Ready for the next one!!
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  • Comments: I gave it everything I had. I can find a hundred different ways to make up 14 seconds, but in the end I didn't. It was a solid effort and I still feel it on Monday. As a marker of the conditions consider that 5:00:13 would have only been good for 101st overall last year and that was with a smaller field than this year. 55th overall (the above numbers are men only and one woman was faster) and 7th in my AG is a very strong result.
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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: This is by far to best race I have done so far. I really loved the FFA site, White Lake itself and the fact that it's pretty darn flat. I'm really glad that I did this race. My overall goal was 6 hours, so I only missed it by 5mins. Big shout-out to Alice (love2tri)for not letting me back out of this one. We all missed you out there.
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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 great race, I will be ready to pull the trigger next year when registration opens.
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I will be back. I will break 5:30. I will be a stronger swimmer, and I will not make the same mistakes on the bike that caused the run to suffer.
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