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Race Reports for Athens Triathlon 2009

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

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

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

  • Comments: Great venue for a race, but the bike course just plain sucks. It's one thing to have a challenging course, but the bike course is just not any fun. Unless they find a different course to take the bikes, I'll only be back as a volunteer.
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  • Organised?
  • Events on time?

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

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

  • Comments: I enjoyed the race. It was a great experience and I am looking forward to completing many more and my goal is to do an Olympic this year. I wasn't the fastest, but I was satisfied because I felt like I built a good base to improve from. Racing certainly shows you were you need to improve.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Everything was great at this race except the road conditions. Riding on chip seal is no fun at all. I don't think I'll ever ride that same course again. Also, the reason the events weren't on time was because the ambulance wasn't there yet. I am glad Jack is so concerned with safety. I wouldn't want to start the race without the ambulance there!!! Oh, and there was still some guy in the top 10 that didn't know how to swim! We counted, and he got passed by 25 people in the water! He was dog paddling on the 3rd lap. I really thought Jack would jump in and pick him up out of the water (as he warned of this in the pre-race meeting). Everyone was aggrivated at the swimmer. I even saw someone (who shall remain nameless) swim right over him because he wouldn't get out of the way.
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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? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Race packet said check in for transition would be 5:30 a.m. It was not. volunteers on site said 6 a.m., but even then it was late. Swim start was late but due to late arrival of EMT's and race director's concern for athletes' safety.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: terrible raffle prizes. who wants a lighted replica of the henderson county courthouse, i mean, honestly!? and the ART lady was taking forever and i didnt get a massage or anything :(
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: SUMMARY I feel really good about my performance. It was a solid effort. I have a long way to go, but I can leave this race saying I performed better than expected in each segment of the race. This was the first race that not a single person at any point in the race passed me and stayed ahead of me. And the only time anyone passed me was when I crashed and made a wrong turn on the bike. In both of those situations, I came back to soundly sail by my passers. No one ever challenged me. It was a pure race against myself. Of course, this doesn't mean I won. In the end, I finished 50th out of about 290 people, 48th in my gender. The key takeaways from this race are as follows: practice sighting in the water, practice transitions, spend more time on the bike and spend more time in my Newtons. As a side note, some manufacturer really needs to develop a legitimate triathlon/multisport watch with heart rate and a running/cycling computer and GPS. I am frustrated that I can only use my Polar
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