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[26]

Reported by:

kblackmon

Race rating (3)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: Quite disorganized at race check-in. No bike racks to hold your bikes and you couldn't rack them until you checked in. The parking was quite crowded and made it difficult to warm-up. Race day had shuttles TO the race, but no shuttles AFTER the race when you were tired so we got to cool down by walking 1/2 mile back to the car with all the equipment. The race itself was very good with a lot of great volunteers, but with the number of "little things" that were out of sorts, I will probably not sign up for this race for at least a couple years.

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[27]

Reported by:

beadams

Race rating (3)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: Ok, now the downside. I am not angry or pissed about the swim cancellation, that was 110% the right decision. Frankly, I thought the race expo was not great, the parking and registration layout way to cramped and small, and the bike check and registration was not well thought out. I am glad I did this race, but I would rather search for another 1/2IM if it means less people or more organization, I would come back if the on-course congestion could be figured out. Maybe without the swim it was worse than usual, but I do want to say thank you to ALL the volunteers who helped, they put up with some rather rude people when the swim got cancelled, the volunteers are great and I thanked as many as I could before leaving.

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[28]

Reported by:

kdogtoo

Race rating (4)

• Organised?
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: Overall this is a well run event. It seams, however, that they did not have a plan in place for the swim being canceled. The first run changed distance and the bike course had to be changed (shortened) at what seamed to be the last minute.

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[29]

Reported by:

rc63413

Race rating (5)

• 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: Very well organized and well run event.

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[30]

Reported by:

jefjejon70

Race rating (4)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


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


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


• Comments: I don't like how they start the slower age groups first. All of the passing on the bike was difficult and even dangerous. Other than that it's a nice course and a very nice area (I'd never been around there). Pretty well run, pretty good food & all that. I do wish that we had been able to swim. Water wasn't as choppy as at Gulf Coast, but someone died there and I'm not going to question the decision.

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