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Race Reports for Chain of Lakes Triathlon

[1]
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

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

  • Comments: This is a fun local race. It is very well-run.
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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: Everyone at this race is SO nice and encouraging. I got to encourage some ppl too, this year, and got extra thank you's for my effort. I wish my bike performance had been better, but overall I feel great about my race! Best part of the day though, was that my mom got 3rd place in her age group, and it was her first triathlon!
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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: Like the small town feel of this race, but this year seemed under staffed. And they had very little post-race refreshments: they were out of bananas, and I didn't see any drinks, so it was simply apples and oranges.
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[4]
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I am super excited and happy with my results this year. I finished this race last year, my first tri ever, in 1:19:41. So yes, I shaved almost 11 minutes off my time. My big goal for today was to go under 1:10 and I nailed that. The only goal I didn't hit today was top 10 in my age group (I was 13), and there's only so much I can do to control that. My time would have gotten my top 10 last year, what can I say, it's a stronger field this year. I took a ton of time off my bike and run, a small amount of time off my swim, and my transitions were a wash. I'm feeling good about my general level of fitness right now and am looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: This is a great start the year tri. I will continue to do this every year.
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[6]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Overall, it was a good race. There were definitely things I would have liked to see done differently but some were beyond the organizers control. The lack of water stations on the run was frustrating, yet offset by the immense amount of volunteers staffing the corners. Every corner had a staff member directing racers on the direction they should take to continue. In some ways it was not needed but it was nice to see.
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[7]
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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?No

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

  • Comments: I liked this race and will probably do it again next year. We'll see.
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[8]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This was an incredible first race experience for me. I didn't like the long wait for my swim heat, and could have better used my time to stretch & mentally prepare, but I wanted to watch everything to see how things worked and enjoyed watching the other swimmers. I definitely want to do more races and have confidence that I will eventually train my way up to a longer distance.
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[9]
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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?No

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

  • Comments: Happy with my first tri, I feel confident that I know where to improve and how to improve, it will only get better.
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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?No

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

  • Comments: I had a blast
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[11]
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: The race seems to be a victim of not so nice weather every year. The race director puts to gether a great race, but by the time the elite group comes through the volunteers are spent, and cold, and ususally no where to be seen
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[12]
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Race rating (3)
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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: Good race, outside of conditions, it was a good race.
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[13]
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Well organized, fun race with good competition. I think the top five all went under an hour, #1 being 53 mins.
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[14]
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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: I love this race. It is well organized. There are plenty of volunteers. I'm sure I'll be back.
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[15]
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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?No

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

  • Comments: I am insane enough to brave the cold, again, next year because this was a very fun first race of the season.
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  • Organised?
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Comments: It was a blast even though the weather sucked. For my first Tri I learned a ton and will do better later.
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[17]
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Great race to start season. Maybe they should make 1 weekend later.
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[18]
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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?No

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

  • Comments: Overall, I love this race and will continue to do it every year. With our weather being the way it is, I should probably consider this just a good training day and not a race. The only thing I didn't like about the race was the lack of water at the aid station. The event is always well run, great volunteers. This will hopefully jump-start me so I can feel a little more comfortable going into IMKS 70.3.
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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?No

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

  • Comments: Only problem I have encountered in the four years doing this race is that the water ran out on the run this year. With the cold weather it wasn't a huge deal, but more of a mental hurdle for me.
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[20]
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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?No

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

  • Comments: Girls staffing the drink station were sitting in a car keeping warm. I don't know if they had run out of water or were just cold and lazy. The rest of the race was great though. Great volunteers, good route. I can't wait for next year.
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[21]
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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: Nice to have an early event for motivation Also good to see where you are at early on.
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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: Just right

  • Comments: This remains one of my favorite races, despite the fact that the weather always seems adverse.
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  • Comments: Volunteers did a nice job.. I was disappointed that we didn't get long sleeve shirts this year! and that we got white shirts.. I really like the blue ones that the volunteers had on... All and all they do a GREAT job with that race and it is always fun to go to alexandria..
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[24]
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

  • Post race activities? Bad
  • Overall course based on my ability:

  • Comments: The course was great, but the transition was kind of annoying. And the post race activities SUCKED. Food was crappy and they didn't have any sort of informatin for what people were supposed to do while they were waiting for the awards ceremony. I don't like the heat starts, but I guess with a pool swim that's all you can do. Anyway, it was a good season opener and a great race for me. 1/21 AG 4/80 overall women 34/167 overall
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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 really like this race and look forward to it every year
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