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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Steelhead 2006

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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: overall, I thought the race was very well done. Lots of support on bike/run course. Lots of people scattered to cheer athlete on. Would have liked a smoother road on bike. I would recommend this race to any doing a half-ironman. Especially, a 1st like myself due to the tremendous support.
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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: What a great race. Soooo well organized. The only problem I had was the food and that's just me being finicky. It was a beautiful course and definately plan to do this next year. The volunteers rocked. They were soooo incredibly nice and supportive. It was also a picture perfect day so for my first race, I couldn't have hoped for anything better.
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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: I'm so happy I did Steelhead. It is an awesome race. Really well organized and a nice course. The roads were a little rough for me, but the girl I was talking to explained that it these were about the best that you could hope for up in the North. I thought that swimming in Lake Michigan was awesome and that the bike course was beautiful. The race was definitely not an easy one, but it was fun to challenge myself. I will definitely put Steelhead on my list of races to do in the future.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This is a great race. There were some hiccups particularly for relay teams--no one on the relay team had access to the post race food until the runner finished. For me, it wasn't a huge deal, but I can't imagine being the cyclist! I also had no access to post race drinks (needed your race number for that too). I think they could have better planned that specifically to relay teams. Other than that, the post race food was quite significant, and they also were running a post-post-race party that we didn't stay for. The beach was LOVELY, and I think this is a great race to bring the family too. They can easily be occupied by the beach while you race!
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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: I thought it was a great race. They did an incredible job in a year the attendance tripled!!! The volunteers were superb and I thanked a ton of them. The volunteers on the bike course took their job in the hand-off so seriously, it was great!!! As I said before, the number of water stations on the run course really helped my time, that was so key for such a hot run. I would definitely do this race again. I do have a couple of negatives. I think they are easy to fix and would make a good race turn into a really excellent race. One is the comment I made on the run course above which I will not repeat. Second, treatment of the athletes post-race was lame. Yes, there was a great spread of food but you had to wait in this huge line and who wants to eat that heavy food right after the race? It would have been nice to be able to grab a bagel or banana. Also, I drank one bottle of water and went back to get another and the guy told I couldn't get back in the finish area to grab another
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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: Excellent race, excellent company, excellent experience. The course was fantastic, the volunteers outstanding, the weather great, and my performance (in total) better than I ever could have imagined. A great day with great company. Thanks - especially to Trix, Lisa, and Jean for playing. :) I'll be back next year. With a chip on my shoulder, and in a new AG. :)
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  • Organised?
  • 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: Left "organized" blank since the race grew from 700 to 1800. Shuttles from athlete parking to transition didn't run after the race! I'll try to upload some pictures later this week.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This race was great except for a few things that were most likely related to the huge increase in racers, the finish area was a bit of a mess in terms of trying to find additional food or water and then my friends and family had a hard time actually getting to the finish area as the shoot was surrounded by sand dunes, I also thought that the finish was a little bit further than it ended up being so I didn't give the kick that maybe I would have. Then the only other complaint and this is pretty minor seemed to not always have cold beverages, and I heard some peole complain about lack of port a potties, but I seemed to find them just fine.
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: I am half of an Ironman!!!!!!!
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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 the swim and volunteers were great on all of the course. Bike was was interesting and had enough for everyone. The run was just plain tough... but it IS a half ironman. It was a great place to race, and would be a great place to take the family to the beach but a bad place for a family to watch a race. This venue is great for participants but sure not set up for spectators. If you didn't know ahead of time that this was an official Ironman 70.3 event ahead of time you would have not known by being there. Would have loved to have seen the Ironamn 70.3 logo more prominent (including the shirt).
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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: I really liked this and will do it again next year.
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  • Comments: very well run. would 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: Very well organized with a very clear course laid out. The bike portion has rolling hills.
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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: Most people said it might be a bad idea to do a half-ironman as a first race, and they may be right. However, I did it and no matter how far back I finished and how many people twice my age beat me, I did it. I should say though that now those 1190 people ahead of me should start looking over their shoulder.
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