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Race Reports for Catalina Island Triathlon

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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: was great! they need to make the awards ceremony better. the girl should be putting the medal on us, not just handing it to us and then shooing us off the stage... but i guess they were trying to hurry it along
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Race rating (4)
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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: Too hard

  • Comments: This was fun. What a great place for a tri. The swim was awesome in the clear water. Bike course should be changed before someone gets hurt with bikes going slow up the hill and flying down within inches of each other. It wouldn't be so bad but there are some pretty good corners to negociate at speed. Other then that it was a challenging course but that's why we do this. To challenge ourselves. I 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?Yes

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

  • Comments: Beautiful island and great getaway for the family. There were some party folks at the hotel the night before, but no one kept us up at night. Fun time for our 20th anniv. and got everyone involved.
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: I love this race. In part because i love the venue. This is a fitting culminating event for a tough but rewarding season for me. There are peculiarities about this race that may frustrate some. The residents of Avalon will not be held down by anybody's attempts at traffic control no matter how valiant, the transition area is in the sand, the bike course can get downright crowded....whatever. If you can keep it in perspective and remember to have a good time, I recommend this race.
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Well, the island itself is gorgeous. A lovely resort town, amidst stunning natural beauty. However, this is not a race I personally need to do again. The course was somewhat dangerous (the bike course was so narrow that there was literally no choice but to draft for many people) with hairpin turns and very little marking. I also didn't love the general attitude of the race. I'm sure Hermosa spoiled me rotten, but it seemed like the volunteers really weren't sure what was happening, the course changed constantly (the bouys were moved every 5 minutes until the start of the swim!) and the bike course was dangerous. Also, SO many of the racers were taking it so extraordinarily seriously and generally were quite negative about everything and nasty to us slower folk. I can't imagine with all my experience with wonderful triathletes that this is a representative of a normal race.
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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?No

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: This was a phenomenal race. I love the location. I love the small town feel of all the racers being in town together. The scenery was gorgeous. The water was clear and amazing. This was a technically difficult course, but some courses are, and that's okay. It was my fault that I wasn't ready for this course. It had nothing to do with the course being bad. I plan to train on hills, get more fit, and return for a strong follow up next year. 52 weeks from now, I plan to kick some island athena ass!
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Race rating (4)
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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: About 15 minutes slower than last year - NOT OK -
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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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I practiacally grew up in Catalina as a kid. My family has a sailboat and we vacationed there as many as 15 times per year. Trips ranging from a weekend to several weeks. For this I feel like I have a special attachement to Catalina. My parents came to see the race as they have an affinity for the island as well. The prospect of competing in this race is what caused me to start seriously training for triathlon in the first place. Having said that, I am dissappointed in my own mental effort level on this one because I know I could have done much better. At the end of the day though, I did improve my time from my last sprint on what I think was a tougher course. The weather and the island were perfectly beautiful. I can't imagine a better end to my first triathlon season. Congratulations to Rob (RH1977) who finished his first tri here. It was nice having a fellow racer to share the experience with. I will be back next year, this time fully prepared with an agressively positive
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Swim bouys set up late. Race started 10 minutes late
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Race rating (4)
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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: Most competitive/challenging Sprint I've done. With 1 down, I'll be better prepared next year. Need to break the top 1/2.
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