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10/23/2010

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Sandusky, OH

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Rev3 Cedar Point: Race Report

by: Jamie Bull

Race morning had officially arrived. After a surprisingly good sleep, I was up, hit the bathroom and downed a bottle of EFS and some Clif Shot Bloks.

I decided that the whole day was going to be focused on two main ideas:
Take the whole day one mile at a time
Enjoy every mile of my only first Ironman
Those two mantras would end up driving me for the next 140.6 miles.

Other than a minor pre-dawn freakout in transition area. I was able to keep a pretty level head as I set up my bike, organized my transition area and filled up my nutrition bottles. I was pretty happy and surprised with my attitude. I’ve been a LOT more nervous for a LOT shorter races.
I’m not sure what it was, but I was just ready to race, get out there and start tearing up the course.
Heading over to the swim start and patiently waiting for the gun to go off. Sam was an amazing sherpa and helped me stay cool calm and collected up until the second I had to leave her and dive head first into the water. Just as I was starting to head through the start gate, she handed me her cell phone. It was my mom calling from Connecticut to give me some last minute last minute well wishes. Hearing how proud she was…

6/10/2010

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41.5275002,-73.1233368

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Rev3 Quassy Race Report

by: Chris Garges

Rev3 Quassy Weekend – Race Report

Last weekend we spent a long weekend near Middlebury, CT. I raced the Rev3 Half Ironman which was on Sunday and was held at Quassy amusement park. It was my second half ironman and being that it was so early in the season and I only swam about 6 times since last October, I wasn’t expecting much more than having fun. It was a great event for the whole family and the kids had a blast. I’m pretty sore today…the hills of CT got me!!

We headed out Friday morning…

After a relatively uneventful and “short” 3 hour drive, we arrived at our hotel. Was a pretty cool “resort” if you will called Heritage. Condo’s, hotel rooms, indoor and outdoor pool, meeting and reception areas, this place was huge…and about 10 minutes from the race site. The kids saw the pool and IMMEDIATELY wanted to go swimming, which we did for a while. I wanted to head over to the race site so I could find it Saturday morning when our team was manning the mile 1 water stop for the Olympic distance event being held that day. We met up with some Trakkers teammates and had a great dinner.

Saturday morning we woke up to some rain, so Lauren drove me over to the race site (instead of me riding over as originally planned). I headed down to the water

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5/28/2010

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Bethlehem, PA

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One week..

by: Chris Garges

This time next week we’ll be in Middlebury, CT for the Rev3 Quassy Half Iron distance triathlon. We’re going to make a 3 day trip out of it. The drive is a nice easy 3 hours so the kids can easily survive…..PLUS they’ll have the added anticipation of being at Quassy, an amusement park, for 3 days….not to mention the schedule of activities that the race directors have planned out. Autumn is already excited for family movie night on the Jumbotron on Friday night, Joshua is excited about the train and Lauren and I are excited to have a “mini-vacation” with the family.

With all the thought going into how fun of a weekend it will be, I forgot that I actually have a race to do!! And a rather long one at that…. It will be my 2nd half iron distance event so after I finished Boston it dawned on me that I needed to be ready for 3 sports, not 1! I’ve done pretty well so far with the biking and running….and I’m working on the swim…so I’m pretty confident that I’ll have a decent race. Until it dawned on me this week that I really hadn’t checked the courses out. Well, as expected for the northeast, there are some hills…well it appears a good amount of hills. Being from the northeast, it doesn’t necessarily “scare” me, actually, on the bright side, it gives the course some…