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Race Reports for Ironman 70.3 Canberra

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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: this was my first half ironman. i was happy with how the event was organised and run.
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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: better organisation at the swim start would have been good. Many people missed getting to the start line on time. I just made it, by about a second. Found a position near the start, looked up to see the first buoy and the horn went off.
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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?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Had the best support ever with Cris she was always there and very positive, poor thing in the sun all dayAll stations were well stocked for all athletes and I was towards the back of the field. Staff/vollies were great! for my first time it was awesome! really enjoyed it. Great experience for first HIM. Would rest the day before to give the legs a bit more for the ride and run. Would probably not do Canberra again as it was my first time, everything went better than expected and I had a great experience and would not want to go back and compare with the same event on another occasion
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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: absolutely awesome volunteers made it such a great day. just wish i felt strong to enjoy myself was a mental battle to keep going. will be returning next year to do it all again
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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: The finish shute was amazing
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This race, I am so sorry to say, was a disappointment from an athlete's perspective. I had planned to compete in Canberra from early in the year along with a handful of club friends from Adelaide. After a 15 + hour road trip we were very disappointed by the fact that the decision to pull the swim was not made until the last minute -based upon bacteria levels - when it was abundantly clear that with all the debris in the lake it was never going to be safe to swim there. Also, the website promised "great schwagg" to honour the 10th anniversary of the race. Let me tell you what that consisted of: A T shirt with uninspired printed logo in an oversized brown paper bag (someone was optimistic) and a handful of 20 % off vouchers. I was awfully disappointed to come so far (literally through Old Testament locust plagues across the Hay Plain and detours due to flooding of the Murrimbidgee River) for......for that! And maybe I'm a bit of a nerd but I do like my chunky finishers medals.
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