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Race Reports for San Jose International Triathalon

[1]
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Race rating (2)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Screwed up the run course and made it 7.4 miles instead of 6.2. Worst of all, they did not tell us ahead of time. After mile 6 marker we still had almost 1.5 miles to finish with no additional signs. Not enough volunteers to support start of race. Started 30 minutes late and had few announcements. Did not have the promised aid station on bike route at top of the big climb.
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[2]
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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: Just right

  • Comments: Very badly organized, we got an apology email that evening from the RD. Race started late, no PA for the start (too busy paying attention to the pro challenge, which was pretty random), NO signage in transition for run/bike out (in fact there was stuff left from previous years on the ground which was confusing), no aid station on the bike, very few volunteers helping out and a run course that went over by a mile and a half.
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Race rating (2)
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  • Organised?No
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: there was almost no post race food! bagels but no cream cheese or peanut butter? geez.
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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: Very fun race. Learned a lot about racing and about myself. The BT training program I used (10 week intermediate Oly Tri) was definitely valuable!
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[5]
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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? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I have never been so proud of such a bad performance in a race. I almost didn't run this race at all, and then several points throughout the race, I wanted to just give up. But I didn't...I couldn't give up and call myself a triathlete! How could I face people back here on BT if I knew that I could have finished, but didn't because I just couldn't HTFU. For several hours after the race, I refused to wash my numbers off my arm, I wanted them there as a badge of honor...a reminder of what I had just done. I think I want to do another Tri...not sure if I can this year, money is such a big issue, but if I can, I want to do a sprint...something smaller to try to get over this whole open water swim thing.
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[6]
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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 easy

  • Comments: was a very nice Oly , flat and very PR-able and if it were not for my bike issues , I'd have had a great day but then I figure I should calculate my times ignoring the 30 mins. ... suddenly the Oly time doesn't look so bad :-) ( or else the last one in my age group has to feel good :-( )
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[7]
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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: Once again J&A Productions impressed me with their amazing event. These guys are great!
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[8]
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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:

  • Comments: some rough pavement and a bit boring on the bike, ran out of chicken burritos post race. No official splits. Otherwise would have gotten a 5.
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Race rating (3)
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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: This race has an awesome party at the finish line and they have a huge amount of food avalable for the athletes to eat. They even have free beer for the finisher as well. But one thing is there is a lack of portopotties on the run and bike. I also think that some of the mile markers on the run were as much as a half a mile off since some of my miles were really short time and some longer. Overall it is a decent race.
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