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Race Reports for Lake Mills Triathlon

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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: This has been something I have wanted to do since I was in college (10+ years ago). For whatever reason, I decided this was the time and I am so glad I did. As slow as my time may seem, I was actually just elated that I had completed it and actually got through it smoothly. I think this is something I would like to continue, so we will see where it goes in the future!
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  • Comments: Great event. They really do a good job. Nice lake, nice shirt, nice breakfast burritio, orange, banana combo and good fluids after the race (Diet Dew - have never seen that before). It would be nice if they kept the transition area locked down better. Too many people in that area, including non-athletes. Should make the finish line right on the beach before the sand, in the grassy area. Put up a fence/stands whatever.
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[28]
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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: Ok the run wasn't the only bright spot. Seeing all my Donkey friends (both participants and Jockstrappers) makes getting out of bed worthwhile. Kind of summing up the day: I pulled out of the parking lot with my wetsuit and water bottle on the roof of my car. Thankfully someone flagged me down, before I got too far.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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  • Comments: Great race and will more than likely do it again next year. Placing 3rd in the AG was great. Really big confidence booster with all the training ive put in and the progress ive made from last year. After this makes me feel better because SOR was starting to play tricks in my mind with the miles on bike and run.
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[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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: not a bad race for me considering the quad issue and that i signed up on thursday evening. also because of those things, i went in without any preconcieved notions on how i would do, just to go out and test the quad kinda thing. was superduper coolio to see so many donkai in attendance (scooby, jmwebs, donkeywolf, lunatick, fishlips, judyjetson,craimyjo,wavedog, schmizey (two hearts pal, two hearts!), talltridad, bunnyT, casserole, jenndoc, vanillwafer, waferspouse, deanna, tacobellgrande, donnawiz, lord helmet...man, im sure im forgetting someone, im sorry if i am, there be just so many of us now!!!!) the DTFU'd award goes to...........man, so many to chose from on a day like that. anyone who participated gets a nod due to the conditions......but lets see, theres casserole competing with a hole in his tummy, nashers hyperventitation techniques in the water but gittin' it done........man...prime candidates there....i think i am going with ...... all the ones that came out and
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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 usual, this race was loads of fun. It's becoming a true donkey tradition. Oh yah.
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[32]
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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: Second time doing this tri. I really enjoyed it again. It is a great way to kick off the season. The swim is short, the run is flat so you can get yourself used to racing again. Looking forward to doing it again next year.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Really a disappointing effort from this Donkey. I tried to get ahold of Scoob's excuse generator, but he must've been using it.
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  • Organised?Yes
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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

  • Comments: love this race! all of the Donkey participation and support makes it really great!
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  • Comments: I am either never going to do a tri again OR I am going to spend all summer in a lake learning how to swim. Verdicts still out.
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  • Events on time?Yes

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

  • Post race activities? Average
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  • Comments: As always, it was a great race for hanging with fellow Donks and just shaking the legs out. My swim and transitions were terrible, but it ain't no thang. It just didn't matter that much to me. But that run is one I won't forget for a long, long time.
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[37]
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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: Will be back next year!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race overall and really great to see the Donks represent. Would have been nice to have some better weather, but you gotta take what you get.
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[39]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: In spite of going slower than I'd like, I had a blast. This is a fun little race. Nice lake, decent bike course, great run course (for those of us who like straight and flat!). I think the new bike course is a bit hillier than the old one, and it was .8 miles longer too. No killer hills, but I remember it as being almost pancake flat and it now has a couple small rollers that had be in the 23 in back. Never had to get out of the big ring though. TONS of BT'ers there. Just a blast to see everyone! Sorry I missed some of you!
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[40]
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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: All in all I beat all my goals except 1:45 due to transitions. I felt "slow" however. Again I'm probably too reserved in these things. My disappointment with the race only lies in the fact that I misjudged how well the other novices would do and felt my division and overall placement were really low. However, it was awesome. Seeing everyone on a race day was great. Being able to say hi as I was passed, for now ;), was cool as well. I'm pretty happy with the day as a whole. Now who wants to buy me a Kestral and Endurance house for $4k? :-P
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[41]
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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: it bike route was 1 mile longer than normal. the course description stated 15, but it was 16.
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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: 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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[43]
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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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[44]
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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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[45]
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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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[46]
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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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[47]
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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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[49]
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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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