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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Texas

[76]
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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: Do away with the 4 lap run course. Put a couple more aid stations on the bike, otherwise... It was nicely done.
[77]
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[78]
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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: Not very pretty, but if conditions are right (which they weren't), could be a fast course.
[79]
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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: expected sunscreen appliers in transition, perhaps that was foolish...
[80]
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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: Glad this wasn't my first 70.3. The lap run would make it a deal breaker for future racing here, but still very glad I did it. Good day.
[81]
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  • Comments: volunteers were AWESOME!!!! you guys up on the mg rock! thanks!!!
[82]
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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: Good race. it was meant as an early season test and I did better than expected. I am happy with the result. it was my best percentage placement at this distance yet. I'll be in the top 10% soon enough!
[83]
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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: Another winner from Keith and crew. I'll be back again. Hopefully I'll be able to do both the sprint and 1/2 as I've done in years past.
[84]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This was my third ironman organized race, and all have been well done. At each, I'd say my only complaint is the lame food afterwards. Many thanks to the army of volunteers!
[85]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Overall pleased with race....I paid attention to my body alot more on the bike and felt a lot better after the race. I was also happy that I didn't get sunburned. It feels good to see some improvement over last year.
[86]
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  • Comments: Couldnt beleive the organization that had gone into the race, very impressed. Well worth flying over from the UK for it. Also everyone i met were extremely helful and friendly. An excellent trip to the US and an excellent first tri. Just trawling the internet for my next one!
[87]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: sooo proud that i crossed the finish line. i do want to do another 70.3 but not for a while!!!
[88]
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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: It was a great executed race by the RD. This is only my 2nd half, both from the same RD. I would race anything he puts on. I'm sure I will do another race with Keith in the near future.
[89]
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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: The organization and volunteers were great. The run course was really well stocked and stationed. We needed all of the water, nutrition and sponges out there. Not so sure about the Ironman race though. It seemed really commercial and impersonal. I liked Keith's races before Ironman infiltrated.
[90]
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  • Comments: Had a great time meeting everyone that came down from the SWBKRUN mentor group. We are already looking to other events this year to meet up for we had such a great time. As far as the race. Not sure what the IM brand added to Keiths race. The Expo was tiny compared to last year from what I understand and it was only IM brand sponsors, no local guys it seemed. Not that I do races for schwag but at Mooseman they had finishers towels, shirts and a water bottle, and I believe they had the same at Lonestar last year, but not this year, guess that's the price you pay for switching over to the IM brand... The race itself was very well run. Volunteers were great, course was fun, lots of spectators, tons of well stocked and manned aid stations, etc.
[91]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Organization was good. Race route was good (flat). Volunteer support was good. I was disappointed in the post-race food, which was limited to pizza, bananas, pretzels, salad, and they had some cookies but you had to ask for them (and then they were disappointing cinnamon cookies of some sort). I missed the ice cream and cookies they had last year (oreos maybe)? Just felt like the selection was limited. The band they had was good. I'll do it again, especially knowing it's 2 weeks earlier in April 2011.
[92]
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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: Keith and his staff put on great races! Big reason I came to TX to do this race is I know that his races are top notch. I wasn't impressed with the changes Ironman the brand has done. Expo sucked..all shirts are K Swiss which for women run super small and short..tech shirts were okay but t shirts felt like fabric was that of $3 t shirt. Only Ironman sponsors merchandise is sold at expo now so selection is limited. Gone are the nice finisher t shirts & bottles like at Mooseman. Sprint and Oly folks got towels when they finished but not the 70.3 folks. They had women cut tech shirts as race shirts which is great idea on surface but every women registered thinking they'd be men's shirt sizes so order 1-2 size smaller than they should have as the shirts run small. Ironman should make a note of that on registration form and allow you to select a t shirt that might actually fit well. Race volunteers were awesome, aid stations organized well and consistent so we'd know what would be
[93]
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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: good event
[94]
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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: Actually was registered for the sprint saturday, but great opportunity for me, since they cancelled the sprint swim. I didn't do any of the Sprint, just turned in my chip. Kind of a last minute decision to do this, but felt like at least prepared on the swim and bike. Worked out well for me.
[95]
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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: Volunteers were great, and the atmosphere was very exciting.
[96]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: This was a great race and I was pleased overall. I wanted to get a massage at the end, but when I went over there, they said there was an hour wait. More massage therapists would have been nice. The 3 HIMs I've done have all been put on by Endorfun and I have been impressed with all of them. Very well done.
[97]
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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: 1st 70.3 is done. First HIM distance. So hard to compare to others, and if the race change much from last year. So many volunteers out there, and lots of support from people all the way on the bike out to the pass turnaround in the middle of no where. I go back and forth on if I like the 4 loop run. Yes great for spectators, but tough when you have to run it over and over again. As my host is leaving Houston, not sure if I'll be back for it again. But great race, and an even better weekend.
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  • Comments: Overall a great race.
[99]
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  • Comments: This was areally good race- the only thing I didnt like was the run course.... 4 loops is just too many
[100]
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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: In the past I'd give this race a 5. To be honest, since it became a 70.3 it lost A LOT. The Expo, bottom line, sucked. It was great in the past to have different vendors--now only IM shop? Suckage. The post race food was nothing compared to what they've had in the past when HEB was part of it; no fun give aways to hang around for...Endorfun does better without Ironman attached to it. I do hate the swim at Lonestar--never had a good one there, swimming against the current or whatever. Salt water doesn't bother me that much, but don't like this one. Moving to Cali will afford me some different races to do, and that's okay. Done this one in the Quarter Iron, the HIM Aquabike, and the 70.3. Probably won't do it again for a long time.
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