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Race Reports for Over The Mountain Triathlon

[1]
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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: Post race food was great. Volunteers and spectators at several points on the course.Very good challenging and humbling course. You certainly feel like you accomplished something out there. Would like to see this hosted a little earlier in May. Late May is less likely to be wetsuit legal - and I had heard a lot of the other participants wishing they had a wetsuit.
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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: The volunteers and peoples of Kings Mountain really make this race. Along every part of the course there were people cheering on all of the participants. The race is in a nice location and is very well organized. My only complaint would be better directions to the Transition areas on the race website. They're directions, but actual addresses would be helpful. All around a great race though, definitely will be back again next year!
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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: best post race spread watermelon/chicken legs awesome
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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: Loved seeing the mayor out at this race. He was handing out food to all the finishers. It was pouring down rain and cold, but he was still out there.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: Glad I did this race for the start of my season. I was under-trained due to injuries, but had fun. And was first Athena!
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This is one of the best Regional races. Challenging course with great support.
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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: There were a lot of friendly volunteers and that was great! I 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: Fantastic trainsition sites, volunteers, finish location. The people of Kings Mountain are truely gracious to have this race there. Everyone was very welcoming and encouraging.
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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 race! The town does this one right.
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[10]
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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 well run race, lots of volunteers. Thank you Kings Mountain!
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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: redeemed the run from last year, better balance to segments, more fun this 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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: First off, Setup Events did a fantastic job with the race. Point to point races are always challenging, and things were organized, on time, and safe. The race-specific towels and water bottles were also a nice touch. Since traveling across the country to do a race is a special event for me, I feel good about my choice to do a Setup race. Second, the course was fantastic. The lake was pretty, calm, and in a nice setting. The bouys were plentiful and placed well. The bike course was gorgeous - it went through country, mountain, and forest. The rolling hills and curves made it a fun course to ride. Just beautiful, and a perfect example of what a bike course should be in the Western Carolina area. The run course was challenging, but the multiple turns made the miles tick by quickly, and a lot of people who live in the neighborhood came out to support the racers, which was nice. Overall, this was a perfect event, and was everything that I hoped it would be. I loved the course,
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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. The point to point course logistics were perfect. The crowd support from the town was awesome. Course was just below the "will breaking" point which made it perfect...challenging but not too much so. Nothing but good things to say and I will be back.
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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 a great race. The town really turns out to put on this event. All water stations had water and HEED as well as plenty of people handing them out. I have to thank Love2tri (Alice) for telling me to get the Hillacious DVD for the trainer. I really think that helped with the bike ride this year as it mimics the bike course so well. Overall a good race for me and shows the improvements I've been making in the run and swim. This is a tough event to manage but I think SetUp does a great job with 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: set up events just kicks ass. flawless execution of multi point, multi t area, multi state race. They just make it easy for everyone to race their race and enjoy the event. every 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: Challenging course. Fun race. The point to point transition areas were easier the second time around - can be challenging the first time you do this race.
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[17]
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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 race, average performance.
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[18]
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: I think Kings Mtn/Setup did a very nice job and alot more right than wrong. The only comments I would make is that they could've had more water for the participants. I really feel that an event this size for their 10 year should be prepared with enough water. I would also recommend that they consider adding vendors for the spectators to buy food and drinks. There was only one energy drink vendor selling drinks to spectators (no water for sale). It really was a very organized race and I was pleased overall.
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[19]
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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 overall experince. I was extremely anxious going in not knowing what to expect or how I might perform. I really enjoyed the race and didn't get caught up in competition. I ran my own race and enjoyed the challenge. I actually did better on most of the race than I thought up until the run where I did worse than I expected.
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[20]
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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: Very well done and fun race in which I am glad I participated!
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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: Always hot and tough course, but really like it.
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[22]
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: Best race I have ever done. The town of Kings Mountain was really involved. Prerace and postrace events were great. I would recomend this race. It is tough as heck but it is fun.
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[23]
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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: Really liked this course. Hope to do the whole Tri next year. Great volunteers!
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[24]
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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: Challenging course and probably not the best choice for a first Oly. Pretty damn proud of myself overall. Revised my goal to 3:23:00 after having ridden the course the first time. Beat that goal and also beat a good friend who I consider a fitness stud. That made my day.
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  • Comments: I dislike the point to point nature of this race. The logistics are a pain and it means you can't start until 8. Even leaving the house at 5 did not leave us with much time to dilly dally, though getting a little bit lost probably didn't help. I dislike the run, but I guess that "share a sidewalk both ways" is not all that different from MAP or WLH. I'm disinclined to do this race again because it's a pain being P2P, but at the same time, it's a good distance relatively close to home so that's a big point for the race. We'll see next year.
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