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Race Reports for Crazylegs Classic 2009

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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?

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

  • Comments: It looks like an awesome race to be in when it's not raining with a cold front coming in. The temp probably dropped 15 degrees from race start to 60 mins in, so that cut down on the festivities. Did I mention it was lightning as well :) Seriously, it was a fun race. If you can't enjoy running in the rain in April, you aren't alive.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This race is awesome, so many people that come back for this every year. Wish the weather was better, but great to see all the athletes out there cheering everyone on, the band playing for every wave when they take off, and then ending in camp randall is awesome. Love UW-Madison!
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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: I recommed everyone do this at least once! 17,000 runners! Sheer lunacy and a lot of fun.
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: Stupid rain. It dropped 36 degrees between Friday and Saturday. And then it started raining.
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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: The good: The wave start is done well and it was easy to run at a good pace right from the start, despite have 19,000 runners or whatever. The course is good, with some hills and some flats. Good variety. It might be scenic too in the middle miles, because one of those lakes is nearby. The bad: The finish line could use a few more refreshments. Orange slices and bananas are tasty, but that was all that was available. Oh yeah and beer, but I can't drink too much of it if all I had to eat was 100 calories in fruit. I didn't like finishing in the stadium very much either, because getting onto the field is awkward (a sharp left followed by a steep downward incline and then a step up at the bottom) and everyone was immediately shooed up to the bleachers after finishing anyway. Once we were in the bleachers there was no way to exit except to cross in front of the runners, and they surprisingly didn't like that. The ugly: The weather this year. If rain is in the forecast,
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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?

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

  • Comments: It's a good time when the weather is better, all in all I'll be back again next year.
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