Subject: RE: Kansas City Triathlon - What'd you think? Loved it!!! What a great race. Organized, well-marked courses, plenty of volunteers, energetic awards ceremony, cool finishers medal, plenty of food, energy drink, and BEER post-race, allowed time for a warm up swim, results were posted online within 30 minutes of the awards ceremony! I thought the bike course was a little technical, but the fact that it went through a residential neighborhood with peeps out in their yard cheering more than made up for that! Only a few things that need to be tweaked, IMO: a number of people were "told" (at packet pickup I guess? ) that rack space in transition would be assigned. Which was not the case. Still curious about that one. Also, there was a minor glitch in those who had to "age-up" per USAT age rules... some were put in the AG they were in on race day, erroneously. They were told it would be fixed for the 'final' USAT rankings, but as of today it has not been fixed. And I thought they could have used a few more boyeys on the last swim section; I didn't see any for most of the last straight-away on the swim. Oh and this is not unique to this race, but my "SMALL" technical t-shirt is more like an XL. I would love it if races would offer women's cuts or at least get a vendor that has more true sizes. Or let me sell the t-shirt back to them or something. They guys I was with who got Large shirts will be wearing my Small, if that tells you anything! Overall, the BEST race I've done in the Kansas City area!!! For real! I will be back. |