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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Muncie 2013

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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 race. Well organized. They need to re-evaluate the bike course (re no passing zone) but it is really fast on rt35. Great volunteers and aid stations were well stocked. PR by 6min 8sec....but still 14 sec to take off so I can get under 5:30.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This was my 1st Half distance Tri, so I have nothing to go on. The VOLUNTEERS WERE AMAZING!! If they werent there, I would have been out of the race before I finished. They ROCKED!! The race director and all of his people, GREAT job!! The competitors that I talked to, AMAZING as well. EVERYONE wanted EVERYONE to FINISH! Its like a brotherhood that Im now proud to be a member of!! THANK YOU to my wife, Shawna. My kids. My mother. My Inlaws. Friends Chris and Amanda. Thank you all for the support and love you gave. As a crazy 44 year old that decided to do something like this, I could NOT have done it without you all. Craig...WOOT!!!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: The race was well organized, well run, and staffed with great volunteers. However, if this new bike course layout doesn't change I doubt I will be back. I would expect better quality pavement on the roads in my local sprint, which costs roughly 1/5 the $ and has 1/6 the registered participants.
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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: The bike course will live as a horrible memory for this race. I have ridden one course that compares to this one and it was a sprint. Kewpee in 2012 was on very fresh chip and sealed roads. It was rough but not bone jarring like this course was. Ironman NEEDS to change this course! Results: Bib 1773 http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/ironman-70.3/muncie/results...
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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: Should be happy that I walked away from this race with a PR but am still not satisfied with my 70.3 performance. I know I can run a better half marathon. Need to really work on my nutrition next year. As far as the Ironman brand race, was very impressed with the whole experience. Would definitely pay for an Ironman brand race again. As I sit here 2 days after the race with the soreness and pain fading I am now seriously thinking about either Wisconsin or Louisville for next 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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The rough section of the bike was absolutely horrible. It was hard to hang on and feel comfortable and it was a long stretch of the race. The rest of the race was awesome. It is a very flat and fast course, you will see that in the bike times. Because of this, there was a lot of drafting because people literally could not possibly put the required space between. Volunteers were awesome at every station, kids, adults, everyone! Stations were well stocked til the end. Rating of 4 only because of the rough part of the bike.
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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: Only complaint was the bike layout, just too rough a road for too long on the back side. A special thank you to all the volunteers, they were AMAZING!!!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Loved this race. Loved Muncie. Loved Ironman. I had a GREAT time and a fantastic race. I will be back next year no doubt. One of my favs.
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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: Would be nice to have somewhere to sit to eat food...
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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: What an experience. I'm glad I got a HIM under my belt after six seasons. Now, I don't know what I'm going to do with my days. That was such a humbling experience, especially starting out my tri life as a BOPer and moving up to a MOPer over the last few years, only to become a BOPer again yesterday. No matter the status, I'm still so proud of what I accomplished on the course that day — which just happened to be my birthday.
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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: A fantastic race for anyone interested in distance racing. There is a reason the Ironman brand is the gold-standard for Tri events. They simply know how to put on a race. If your thinking about racing Muncie, do it. The course will challenge you, but the staff/volunteers are there to support you every step of the way.
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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: This was a well run race. The conditions were great.
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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: Impressed with the volunteers and the race in general. Got my first HIM in the books. Did I mention I beat Patrick Evoe?
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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: Definitely enjoyed the race. Couldn't have asked for better weather. Once again can't win the race in the swim.. many many people had slower swim time and were ahead of me. Went from top 1/4 in AG to MOP to BOP from swim to bike to run.. Ranks in report are cumulative at end of event instead of individual event ranking. The finish was definitely more emotional than I anticipated. My goal was sub 6 hours and once I realized that I would be under and not just squeeze it just hit me.
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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! Will do it again.
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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: PR for half ironman distance and also for each individual events as 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: The run was too hilly for me and if it was a normal hot July day I would have been in toruble on the run. And the rought bike course would prevent me from repeating this race. If the IM was under a different name, it would go under. The volunteers are the best part of IM experience. The race t shirt is poor quality. The event itself is poorly ran. I try not to do IM events, but most triathlets want to do an IM event.
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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: Need to fix the bike course.
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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: The organization commitee that put this event on did a very good job with everything. The volunteer support was amazing and the folks were happy to be helping. Even the local people who didn't have anything to do with the event were great. There were a couple people who were carrying hoses and would let you run through them to cool off. I was very impressed and very thankful for those volunteers help. I tried to thank them as much as I could.
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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: Loved it. Loved the sense of accomplishment. Loved the atmosphere. I was thinking that after I crossed this off the bucket list, maybe I'd be done with triathalons for a little while. However, I just spent 20 minutes looking up races late summer and fall to see if there was one that would work! So we'll see...I also thought this would rule out an Ironman, but quite the contrary. I absolutely know I can do that now...just a matter of making the training schedule work with a family life. Off to get my 70.3 car sticker over lunch!!!
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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: My friend and I stayed at Harris Chapel that is at mile 2 of the run course. It is only $15 per person and it is FANTASTIC! The nearest hotel to the race is about a 30 minute drive. This was so close. The church provides cots and breakfast. They have wifi and a beautiful park setting. You can even bring a tent and camp if you prefer. This church should be packed every year because it really is the best option. The only downfall is they do not have showers. They did however, let us leave our stuff there until after the race and come back and clean up/change clothes. Better than paying for another night at a hotel just be able to shower.
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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: Was very fun! Had lots of family there, Hank, Kathy, Jim, Lisha, and Chads parents.
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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: Amazing experience so many people to help. Loved it!!!
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