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Race Reports for Lake Mills Triathlon 2008

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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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  • Overall course based on my ability:

  • Comments: This was my first triathlon and I had a blast. It felt great to finish and see my two daughters and husband at the finish line.
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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 wish the transition area was more secure. I don't have the best equipment, but someone could have easily walked in and taken whatever they wanted.
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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: Thought it was a good effort and proud of the results. Goal was to finish less than 1:25 and was achieved. Need more bike training !! Need to stick to a formal/written training program.
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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: really enjoyed the race, good early season difficulty. GREAT day with the Donkeys! (and my W&S friends!)
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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 nice course and well organized.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I had a great time at this race. Weather was perfect and really enjoyed hanging out with my fellow Donkeys. They are good peeps...and fast too. Congrats to Yams, Schmize and Pjgrande for grabbing the hardware. I have much area for improvement, but my head is back in the game and that is good.
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  • Comments: Year Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Total 2002 11:00 1:57 47:59 1:09 24:28 1:26:30 2003 11:09 2:10 44:25 1:09 23:28 1:22:18 2004 10:13 2:14 41:06 1:05 23:28 1:18:04 2005 10:52 2:45 44:01 1:02 23:56 1:22:35 2006 9:43 1:50 40:53 1:15 22:45 1:16:23 2007 8:54 1:39 40:31 2:02 23:04 1:16:07 2008 8:34 2:04 42:17 1:50 22:09 1:16:52 First of all, great job by all donkeys. I realized at this race that donkeys are bling happy (I'm guessing 80% of aero-helmets present were worn by donks) and serious, fast focking racers. Many faster than me take the sport much more seriously than I do. I've gotta ramp-up a tad in things like yanks, transition practice, biking in general, swim attitude, etc. I am mixed on this race. It's interesting how I used to want 8-ish swim and 20-ish bike, and 7-ish run. I've got that but now everyone I know is 7-ish and 22+ on bike, and 6-ish on run. Just keeping up with you playahs is getting tough. Take a look at my historical graph. It seems I just need to put
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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: Overall a good race. It was run well as always. No transition area security this year which made me a bit nervous about leaving everything there after the race. Performance-wise, it was a good race. Swim - good; T1 - ok; Bike - eh; T2 - good; Run - good. This race was not a priority on my schedule. I have bigger things to train for and accomplish this year than ripping up a sprint. So, racing after a decent training session the day before was alright by me. Overall I'm happy with my results and AG placement.
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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: This race is very well done. Not crazy about open transition but no harm there. Great food afterwards. Didn't have to wait long to check in. Timing of the waves on the swim got delayed due to the course getting a bit crowded but that was a good decision. My preference would be for the swim to be doubled which gives me a better chance to make up some time.
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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: after thinking about this race..........initially i was a bit disappointed to be honest. had an "upper" goal of sub 1:10 which i thought i could honestly do. had a "realistic" goal of sub 1:15. so i beat my "realistic" goal and after thinking more about it i think i couldve gotten the sub 1:10 with better transitions and pushing harder on the bike and run, which i felt i couldve done since i was recovered before i was handed the bottle of water after the finish. another thing i feel good about is that previous to this tri i have only done two others....one in madison about 8 yrs ago and pewaukee last year. both of those tri's were kinda done on a "whim" and i was completely out of shape for both of those (pewaukee last year i was almost 200 lbs!) so you could make a case that this was my first tri that i have ever done where i was actually in shape. another think i like to do is take away positives from each event i do. in this case, I SURVIVED THE SWIM!!!! and also got my goal of
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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 day, great people, great race. What a way to start the season. This was my last race. As a clydesdale. At the rate that I am training and losing weight I will have to be an AGer for the duration. Oh well-DTFU.
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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: Beautiful weather and great company!! Just enjoyed the race!! Would do this one again.
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  • Organised?Yes
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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

  • Comments: Great race and well organized. Very cool venue and the people are great. Definitely will do this 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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race, definitely want to make this a regular race. Also, they gave out a really nice shirt which is a definite plus.
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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: As always, Lake Mills was a great event and a major donkey happening. It was great to see and meet so many donks-- djdavey, morey1, jszat, jmwebs, AmyJoTris, firstnet 911, maggyruth, djdavey, 1stTimeTri, pjgrande, sgoehner, pjgrande, deannas, pseudoyams and others I just can't think of at the moment. It was also an absolutely perfect day for a race-- an almost unbelievable day, considering the non-Spring we've had in Wisconsin. I also got out of this race exactly what I wanted-- to rebuild my confidence in my run. I said going in there was no way I was going to be able to beat my time from last year. And yet, despite a sub-par bike and awful transitions, my swim and run were strong enough to help me beat my time from last year by more than 30 seconds. Now I just have to keep building on this momentum.
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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Easy course with great friends. I'm not a fan of races with open transition areas, but this seemed to be OK. Considering were I came from, I'm very happy with this performance.
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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 easy

  • Comments: Good show every year and threw in a tech shirt. Nice way to kick off the season.
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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: Hey - this is a PR for me. I finally broke that dreaded 1:30. Now, if I get my butt on the bike more, I might actually break 1:25, eh?
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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: Maybe have a more delicious meal choice next time...that was the worst burrito ive ever had
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  • Comments: Hypervented after finish...could not breath
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