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Race Reports for Manassas Mini Tri Triathlon

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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: Great race for my very first Triathlon. Just the right distance to give me a challenge but not long enough to frustrate me. Think if I can get faster with my swim, I can be competitive at my age group
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Good tuneup race. Lots of fun
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  • Comments: While I'm very happy to have won my age group, I'm disappointed that I didn't make my time goal of 26:30 - which was very achievable for me, and of course to have missed placing overall by only 2 seconds. If I had avoided any one of several mistakes I would have placed overall. ugh... The competitiveness of the race this year was definitely a step down from last year. There were at least 50-100 more competitors last year and the winning times for most categories and age groups were not as good. Not sure if it's the economy or what. I think this will be the last time I'll do this race. I've progressed enough where I don't feel like a beginner triathlete anymore, and at some point, for the sake of sportsmanship, non-beginners should not be racing in races meant for beginners. After having placed in my age group last year and come back to try to do better this year, I'm just going to let it be.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: They did a good job running this race. I'm sure it's hard given most people are newbies - that's the stated purpose of the race. This was my first triathlon and it felt really great to have placed in my age group.
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?No

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

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too easy

  • Comments: I thought that this race could have been better organized, people were late and everything was late. I have done this race in the past and really enjoyed it, it is great for beginners. i was a little disappointed at not getting a water bottle this year, and the shirts really were not good this year. Also there was no water at the end of the race to hand out. I just think for the money paid this race could have been better organized, better shirts (not a big fan of the tank tops) and water at the end. Other then that it was fun like always, and the kids at the end of the race are so great to watch.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Good race. GREAT for newbies. Very welcoming lots of different body shapes and bikes and all that on the course. Course was a good level of difficulty for me. I do wish that the transition times were separated from the swim/bike/run times. But there was no chip timing, so that would have taken quite a few more volunteers I'd guess. I didn't like some of the structure of the course since the start of the run and the finish crossed each other. I didn't like the swim start (being pushed in). The race was fun and festive. The way the course was structured, it was very spectator friendly which was nice.
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  • Organised?
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?

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  • Comments: First race ever. Just started looking at tris, started training next day
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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: Just a tune-up to give me an idea of how much more I need to train for the Iron Girl in August.
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