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Race Reports for Burley Lions Spudman Triathlon 2009

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Race rating (3)
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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 easy

  • Comments: It's really hard for me to rate this race, so I just gave it a 3. For organization and local support, I think it is a great race and it is obviously very popular. It's also a very very fast course because of the current-aided swim and flat bike/run. My rating gets dragged down because of the rough roads on the bike course, and, more importantly, the drafting. The race rules say no drafting and that there will be penalties imposed, but I know now that they don't enforce it and so there is always a lot of drafting. I wish I had known that before I signed up for it back in January. I'm primarily racing myself/the clock, but its always interesting to see where I placed overall and in my AG. I can't help but think that some of the people in those big packs that went by me were in my AG. Those packs were moving pretty fast and the people in back were just going easy and certainly saved time and saved their legs for the run. I'm glad I did this race once, but I will not be going ba
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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: Love how fast this race course is. No where else can you run an Oly distance race in just over 2 hours. I'll have to try a regular one this season and compare just to be reminded of how easy this one is :)
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