I'll do my best to keep it short, but once again, in my opinion, KLM came up short today.
My biggest complaint was the lack of people/markings on the run course. I know people mentioned here that this was an issue last year, so I would have thought they would have fixed it, but no dice. I ended up making 2 wrong turns at the beginning of the run along with several others and ended up running about 2 miles extra. How can you have fork in the roads with no people directing traffic or at least a sign pointing which way to go?
Now I was using this as a training workout, so I don't really care about my time, but I know there were some 1st timers on the course who made the wrong turn and this is not the way to help grow the sport.
I know there are some people on here who won't do KLM races and I might need to add my name to the list.
Other issues that I won't rant on, but were disappointed in:
No one directing parking
Those wooden bike racks that do not do a good job holding up bikes, especially when people try to cram hybrids and mountain bikes into them.
No one at the bike short course turnaround or the sc run tournaround
(besides the police officer who did not know what was going on, but that is not his job
)
The run course was supposed to be 3.1 miles, but seemed further than .1 past the 3 mile mark
(I did not bring my garmin, so I could not measure
)
Swim seemed a tad longer than, but I'll be interested if anyone else thought that, I was not going all out, but my time was a lot slower than usual.