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Race Reports for Esprit de She Tri Naperville 2012

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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

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

  • Comments: This race is really fun. It's female only and the support from other racers is great! People are constantly saying encouraging things.
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Race rating (5)
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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: It was my third time doing this race, and I still absolutely love it. Even though it was a last minute decision, I'm really happy I decided to 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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Didn't stay for all the activities but they sounded nice. Would have appreciated access to the beach house to change but the park was open to the public by that point so they weren't letting racers inside.
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Race rating (5)
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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: A well organized race with lots of support. Tremendous encouragement from spectators, community and fellow competitors. Empowering, ESP to first timers. I'll do it again next year and beat my time.
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Race rating (5)
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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 think that this is an extremely well produced race. Everything went off very smoothly. Also, it was good that they were prepared with wet towels both on the run course and after the race, so they were totally prepared to handle the weather conditions. I also saw a biker down on the run course, with a mechanical problem, and on my first loop she had one volunteer helping her, but on my second she had two! Nice to see them out there helping get her back on the road. Pretty happy that I improved on my time from last year (2:01:30) by just a hair under 20 minutes... though there has been a lot of training between now and then, so those 20 minutes were hard earned! Don't think I'll show that kind of improvement again next year, though, since I figured out how shoes untie and all. :-) I did decide not to use any nutrition products today -- so other than a banana pre-race, rather than a Gu or whatever, I ate nothing until after the race. The only other source of calories was about two
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