Race Reports for Duluth Triathlon

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Comments: First time for this race but picked this Duluth triathlon bc the organizers have experience with it (Superior man the following week didn't have that.) So it was a little disheartening to see that they didn't have enough buoys, that the volunteers on the swim weren't so helpfully placed. No finisher medals, t-shirts were tiny, and the post race food was lack luster. Worse was the age groups--1-39 and 40-120?? I wondered if that was legal with USAT. Pretty lame. The 7 awards they gave out for AG were really nice. But come on. You can't put 40 year olds with 50 year olds. Not to mention one friend who is 70. Race cost $150 so it wasn't cheap. I am pretty tired of for-profit company races. The community sponsored ones tend to be so much nicer--like Annandale, Buffalo, etc. Now, HIMs tend not to be run by communities bc they are a bigger affair. Nothing the race director could do about the roads, the decision of the contractors to work that day. But there were other things in their control

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