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Race Reports for Kinetic Half 2010

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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 hard

  • Comments: The volunteers on the run wer very helpful. Race too hard for me in those conditions.
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This was my first HIM and just a prep race for Eagleman. Had a goal time of 6:30 and came in right at 6:30. Im pleased as punch! It was a really fun day! Challenging course but nothing that I couldn't handle. I knew I could do all the parts and I knew the speed that I could do them as stand alone events but I didn't know what that would look like all together. I raced pretty conservatively today. Im glad that I did this race so I am more mentally prepared for eagleman. Looking forward to Eagleman where the course will be flat and I will have one less thing to think about w/the absence of hills. (although hills did make the course interesting and gave me something to think about)
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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 run race, except for the lack of a race clock. The volunteers were all wonderful - thank you if you are reading 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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I'll be back. I love this race. Low budget and low key in a remote location. I felt for the volunteers as the wind was blowing the cups everywhere and we are not a very considerate lot.
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  • Organised?Yes
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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

  • Comments: Lake Anna is a great race venue and Setup events really put on a great triathlon. Plenty of aid stations. Very helpful volunteers. The course is really nice...especially the bike course. There were some complaints about the traffic on the course but I didn't think it was a problem at all. I was somewhat disappointed that the check-in lines were so long. I was checked in by 6:40am...done with setting up transition by 6:50am and my wave started at 7am. That made for a stressful 30 minutes. Only a couple bathrooms as well. They definately needed more porto-johns.
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  • Comments: I am so happy I can't even describe it to you - official time = 4:55:32!!! I had a secret goal that I considered barely possible if everything came together perfectly to go sub 5 (which would be a 50 minute PR - but I'm almost 40 pounds lighter than I was when I set that PR). When I left the hotel on race morning there were 20mph constant winds with gusts to 30... plus it was HUMID (I sweat a lot). I went from being nervous to being completely "oh well" and just decided to have fun. I knew everyone would be b*tching about how choppy the lake was and how hard the bike was going to be and all that. I love the irony of triathletes who pay thousands of dollars to challenge themselves and suffer and then get all sissified when it's windy or hilly or choppy or hot or whatever. HTFU people, we're all equally disadvantaged. I switched my garmin over to HR/time only, and removed my bike computer... something I've been wanting to experiment with for some time but always have big time goals
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Set Up does a great job but they need to add some port-a-potties to the park for a big race like this!! They also seemed to lack some voluteers this year---perhaps the problem at packet pick up---some of the aid stations seemed like only a couple of people... I really like this race and plan to make it part of my early season most if not every 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Beautiful countryside and although it is brutal to run past the finish line twice and up a big hill immediately after, the whole run course is safe. The biggest difficulty is getting there through traffic on Friday. Good help from police, EMS and volunteers. Well marked asphalt with mile markers. Water handoffs on bike went well.
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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 was a good race. It was just hillier than I'm looking to do. Had there been only wind or only hills I probably would have done better. With both it kicked my tucas. I'm not near as upset about this as some might be. I'm much stronger this year than I was at the same time last year. Had this wind been in evidence in my first two races last year I would not have finished them and would have had to take a DNF.
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: The park (Lake Anna) is a beautiful setting for the race (thanks for reminding me Josh). Definitely would consider trying to camp there if I ever did it again and try to enjoy it more. As it was, I felt hurried or spent the whole time and missed taking a moment or two to enjoy the beautiful setting. Take out the traffic (and wind) on the bike ride, and that would have been lovely too. They needed more volunteers at the beginning - barely was able to get all my stuff together for my start... and I wasn't alone, everyone was scrambling because of the lines. For goodness sake, get some portajohns! Let me say that again... Port-a-potty! Don't run out of water/heed on 1st bike station... people are planning on that (that being said, it was my first time having bike stations and that was WONDERFUL). Run stations were great... thanks! How about a race clock somewhere on the course... like maybe at least the finish line? [Notes: My "too hard" rating is only b/c of it being based
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