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Race Reports for Shawnee Mission Triathlon - Short Course 2013

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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: Just right

  • Comments: The race gets good turn out every year and the closed course helps everyone to get into the spirit of the event.
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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: They had a pancake breakfast post race so Patrick, Pete and I went over there for a while. I had about 5 as I was pretty hungry. We then waited around for the awards which took awhile. The awards announcer guy was a hoot! He announced things in random order and noted finish times for some people but not for all. Depending on the size of the age group, the awards could go five deep. So one female age group went four or five deep and he announced the finish time of the 4th or 5th place girl but not the others. He then skipped from men 35-39 age group to men 45-49. Sometimes he would announced 3rd to 1st place and other times 1st to 3rd place. So Pete got 5th OA in the short course which give you an OA award and you are supposed to be removed from AG awards. They didn't even announce overall for the short course so Pete got first in AG, which he was anyhow. I was expecting 3rd place but ended up first in AG because those ages on the results printout were wrong I guess. This
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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: Probably the best local race for beginners. They trialed a TT start this year, thinking it would be safer/better for newbies. As much as I hate the TT starts, I'm good with this if it brings more people to the sport and an active lifestyle. I think next year I'll step up to the long course. Still podium'd the last 3 years in my AG, time to move up...
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
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  • Comments: Overall another excellent JCPR event. I wasn't a fan of the run course change they made because it eliminates historical data for performance comparison but I think the extra distance makes the run easier, allows more recovery after the dam hill, the finishing hills didn't seem so long this year. I also don't like the time trial start because I enjoy heads-up racing but if it is safer for new swimmers then great, but I've seen other races address the swimming safety issue with a last wave option. JCPR used to offer an optional first wave but that got squashed by USAT rules.
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