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Race Reports for Ashland Lions Olympic Triathlon 2010

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Race rating (4)

Comments: Overall a good race. I've only done 3 Olympic distace races, but I think it would be hard to find one more challenging, esp the swim to bike transition. The hills on the bike and run (one right out of transition) made for a good workout. Not sure of the exact run distance - seemed longer than 6 miles though.

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Race rating (2)

Comments: Organizers were just starting to set up transition area 1.5 hrs prior to race start time - didn't finish until about 1 hr before. Not initially body marking at earlier registration time, then later had to wait in long line. No labeling of bike in/out vs run in/out and one race organizer with FIRM (Not a Lions volunteer) actually said to me when I asked "I don't know, but they'll tell you when you go through in transition, but maybe you want to know ahead of time, huh?" YEAH! Come on. That's pretty basic. She was the 2nd person I had asked, the first just said, "I think..." but couldn't give me a clear answer... finally a 3rd could tell me definitively. I fortunately knew from BT people about the interesting T1 situation and recommendation for shoes for T1 - but a lot of people did not and either did not have shoes, or were returning to transition area to try to grab a pair of shoes after taking the initial walk down to the beach, and then having to rush to get back down to the

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Race rating (4)

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