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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Buffalo Springs Lake 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: Everything was great, except the racers needed more food at the end. I was at the olympic distance race about a month earlier and they had more food. The awards were great, and there was plenty of food there, but I wish they would get to the clydesdale and athena awards first, we can't get slots for Kona or Clearwater so once those are given out no one even pays attention. I have already registered for next years 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I am pretty sure I will never do this race again. I like the course but I have other fish to fry. I came out of this race feeling more confident that I have in the past. It was a good building block for my A race this summer.
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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: It is a challenge - one to which I plan to face again in the near future. Maybe this time with a friend of family waiting for me - BTW Thank Debbie, Kai and Coach Gerald for waiting for me at the finish line. There are times being a loner really sucks, but you were there for me at the one place it mattered.
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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: The volunteers were awesome. I saw one young man at an aide station chase a runner down to give him the drink he asked for _ I mean sprint out of the aide station to catch this runner. Lovely venue. I would rope off the shallows at the start of the swim if I were race director. If they don't and you want to be competitive you should preview this part of the course.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

  • 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 think the way this course is run and the volunteers make it a top ranked triathlon in my book. Everyone is so friendly, even the competitors, despite the swim. This is the first time I stayed in the host hotel and that was cool, because the whole hotel was booked with triathletes and I actually got a good nights sleep before the race!
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: overall this was a HIM PR for me and i was very pleased with my performance. i considered this an A race in order to help gauge myself for IMAZ in nov. i really feel i am built for the long races and the longer the are the better. this race helped confirm my swim has come a long way and my run is really getting strong due to consistent training w/o injury. the focus on the next 4 months will be to maintain the swim and run and build on my bike. congrats to the other finishers on this site. big congrats to my friend grant who qualified for kona in the 18-24 AG and turned down $400 to pass on his slot so the #2 guy could collect it. sorry buddy but you got to win that spot not buy it. and really big congrats to anysley o for making to journey from canada to tx and finishing strong. stick with it and you will thank yourself in the long 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: Just right

  • Comments: Everyone preps for the heat at BSLT (which can be brutal). Few anticipate cool weather and rain; it made for a bit of a treacherous course, but I still liked it. A challenging day mentally, and I like the terrain we don't get in the Dallas races. Even though we didn't face the heat, and I wasn't pushing overly hard, I still felt like I really accomplished something just b/c of the terrain. I like the beach start for the swim, although they need to cut out the ability to run so far into the water. Well organized race, and the volunteers were plentiful and great! Perhaps the best med tent I've been in; they were clearly ready for the normal, hot conditions. Post-race really wasn't very good. Food was bagels, watermelon, and oranges, although there was beer. Not a very spectator-friendly course; and, other than the beach, not much for spectators to do during the race. Also, nowhere to hide out had the heat been in full-swing, so I'd recommend not bringing the family to this
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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: Volunteers were pretty good for everything, especially the run course and bottle hand-ups. The post-race food was pretty lacking. Nothing had any protein in it, and I think they need something like that out there. Not a fan of pizza or burgers, but a few more options were necessary. They advertised sponges, and maybe I missed them, but that would've been nice. Not horribly needed that day, but if it had been hotter, they would've been needed. The Athlete Dinner was "okay" afterwards, though the amount charged for non-athletes was too much I thought..the emcee talked A LOT. This was a VERY VERY competitive field out there. The times for this year, in my AG, compared to last years results were PHENOMENALLY faster despite the conditions. Very few return racers and lots of far from home racers. That is no problem, with the Kona and Clearwater slots, it's no surprise. I definitely didn't expect the field to be as strong as it was, but there were some incredible athletes out there. I
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: course was good overall, I just wasn't able to prepare well enough for the long, steep hills.
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