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Justin,

 Great job with the 2008 Scofield Triathlon. I had a great time. The water was great, the bike ride (despite the unavoidable dam(n) road construction) was awesome, and the run was challenging, especially the beginning section in the state campground. Who designed the run? As I started to run up the hill, I wondered if it wasn't designed by Satan himself. I even thought I heard him laughing at me...

 Thanks for putting on a great event. See you next year!

 Mike Stenquist

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Hi Burke,
I just wanted to thank you for another great tri at Scofield. Once again you out did yourself and the event was amazing. My parents drove from Montrose, Colorado to watch for the third year in a row and they are always surprised at how much work is necessary to pull this thing off. My parents decided to stay in Price at the Holiday Inn. They told me it was not cheap to stay there, over $300 for three nights, but worth every penny. They said they will stay there from now on when they come to watch me struggle through the tri!! Thanks again for a wonderful weekend.
Jennifer

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Dear Scofield Tri guys,
Just a note to thank you for the awesome race today. There were so many small details that drive me crazy and which we normally encounter that simply were not at your race today.....thank you for organizing the 3 different lengths....it was SO nice NOT to swim into the other racers participating in the sprint/olympic distances. As a swimmer I often find myself catching the very slow sprint distance athletes and it can be somewhat frustrating. There was NO question about which way to go either. THANK YOU for that awesome metal - that is a HUGE improvement!!! Your superman logo is the best. Thank you for proceeding with the award ceremony. It's difficult to finish a hard race like that and everyone is either already packed up and gone or are in the process. However, when your finished with a race, you want get to the awards asap and get home. I also thought it was very appropriate to give out finishing metals to everyone who completed the ultimate distance.
That swim was so awesome! Where else can you be boated out to the start with a porta potty on board! I also noticed that you guys were very relaxed and everything was ready to go - thank you.
On our way out I took a moment to reflect on Richard and the crandall miners. At last year's race, Richard was still alive and in a very bad spot. I was relieved today knowing what a blessing his death was. Also last year I remember having a moment of silence for the crandall miners. I couldn't help but reflect on that either. My memories of the Scofield tri run deep within me - due to mainly these 2 events - especially with Richard. I learned alot that day and doing your race helps me to remember what the most important things are in my life.
Thank you Annette
P.S. My new motto .... Finishers are finishers...no matter when they cross the finish line.

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I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thanks, and to congratulate you on an outstanding event. The professionalism, compassion and honest caring for the race and the athletes is very obvious. These qualities are missing from most other race organizers.

I loved the race (except the climbs :) ), and everything was perfect.

I feel like I didn't help very much, Ill make it up to you next year. Thanks for hooking us up with the awesome camping spot. It made race morning so easy.

Please pass on my sincerest gratitude to all of your family, staff, and volunteers. Everyone was friendly, cheerful, supportive and enthusiastic.

Regards,
Scott Sunderman

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Great race report!
http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=124569&posts=1

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Hi Burke, Hi Justin!

Well, it's finally over and I can only hope that you both can take a little time for yourselves to recover from the fantastic effort you both put into the race(s).

I think this year's races went better than ever before. Everything seemed so streamlined and organized - from race registration to the event itself.

The timing was spectacular - especially for the Ultimate! You and Burke had everyone on the boats right on time and we had a very smooth and relaxed trip out to the island with plenty of time to warm-up and assemble in the water.

I was AMAZED how everything went off so perfectly on time. I haven't been to a race this year that started on time - some were even over 30 minutes late to start!

The volunteers, as always, were fantastic. And, of course, you two and your crew were awesome. You were all running around doing 5 things at once and getting them all done. You could write a pamphlet on multi-tasking.

Keeping it so simple by having only body marking rather than numbers for the bikes, the helmets, the race uniforms - it is so very elegant and easy and I love it. It also keeps the logistics lower for you and the racers.

The aid stations were placed perfectly for maximum effect.

The roads were swept squeaky clean.

I think we lucked out with the weather - it was perfect.

The water temperature was practically on the warm side - with the wetsuits! No one complained about cold water!

The boat shuttle to the island was flawless.

Thank God (and you two) for the sight bouys - with the morning sun shining brightly, it was difficult to sight on anything too far away so the sight bouys were a blessing. Without them, we would have had swimmers strewn all over the lake! I just swam from bouy to bouy until I was finally close enough to see the channel and the shore line.

The blind curves were marked and provided plenty of forewarning for the cyclists on the ultimate.

The intersection at the fork (clear creek and coal mine) seemed well controlled. There were no "merging" cones but it didn't seem like we needed them anyway.

The aid station at the bike turn-around was just perfectly placed on that gentle up-hill slope. It made it very easy to grab a bottle safely and surely.

Post-race - it was great to have some beverages that people wanted to drink right after the race! The Vitamin Water was a total hit! The Powerade was too strong for some so it was perfect to have a mild alternative!

So, knowing that the race was, again and perhaps more so than ever, a resounding success - what could have been improved, however slightly?

It's actully pretty hard to come up with things - I've really got to dig around and what I come up with are mostly just icing on the cake details - like if we wanted to make it a luxury event...

I think we could double the number of sight bouys from the island to the channel - they were spaced very nicely but the distance between them was great enough that people who aren't super at sighting did a little zig-zagging. So, doubling the sight bouys would be a huge help for keeping swimmers on track since the rising sun pretty much washed out anything above water level. I never once saw anything on land, the white carpet and yellow bouy? never caught a glimpse of them.

Having just a few more kayakers would have been great - especially one for the lead swimmer(s). At water level, it really seems a long, long way to the channel and any help staying on course is huge! When racing, the lead group sights on the lead kayaker! The people swimming just behind this group sight on the swimmers ahead of them. A swimmer's first choice for sighting is the swimmers in front of them because they are easiest to see - because they are closer, at water level, splashing and moving their arms. The people swimming behind them sight on the swimmers ahead of them and so on. SO, if you can keep the leading swimmers on the straight and narrow, the other swimmers who use them for navigating will stay on course better and you'll just have a straighter swim for everyone! It is also easier to see kayakers and swimmers because we don't have to lift our heads out of the water as much to sight on something on the water's surface - like a swimmer, kayaker or bouy.

Awards ceremony - started quickly and went pretty smoothly. I think next year we can take the tiny bit of extra time and say people's times - I think people are pretty interested in how fast people are and how close they were to the winning times.

I think we could, perhaps, incorporate the sponsors a tad more - sponsors like Canyon Bicycles and Wasatch running could have handed out some prizes. Maybe next year we'll ask them to donate a helmet or a pair of shoes to the winners of the three races so they can get a little love from the athetes and a little more direct recognition? It is just a thought.

The medals were very nice - nice look, nice heft and, of course, brilliantly engraved!
Although I too am a superman fan, I think next year we should run with Justin's idea of having some awards, medals or plaques that reflect the venue a little bit more. Let's get the coal mine to ante up and call at least one of the races the Scofield Coal Man (or something along those lines) and have some coal or mining motif on the medals or a chunk of coal on the plaque - whatever works!

OK, see, now I'm just digging and I'm not coming up with anything really tangible - it really went brilliantly.

Burke, Justin - you guys put in a fantastic effort and, again, managed to bring off a new event with nary a flaw and splendid precision! I only heard great things about the races and the new course. I was thrilled with the Ultimate course, even if it did kinda kick my ass the last 5 miles of the run - the swim and bike were exciting, challenging and thrilling - exactly what I was hoping for!

Please know that even though I'm just a racer, I probably understand better than almost any other racer how much work you two put into this race - not just the weeks before the race where you all work too hard and sleep to little, or the day of the race where you are just going at full-throttle 100% from early in the morning until the last person crosses the line, or the dis-assembly of the whole race venue and the clean-up. I know you work at it throughout the entire year and that's why you run the best even in the state. We, the participants, can't possibly thank you enough for allowing us to benefit so much from all your hard work.

I can't thank you gentlemen (and your families) enough for the opportunity to be a part of such a fantastic event and to race such a spectacular course in such a great venue. It really is an honor and my privilege to work with such a couple of great fellows. Thank you, thank you, Thank YOU!

I wish you both a swift recovery from the huge effort you put in and look forward to seeing you soon. Thanks again for the awesome event - you gentlemen are the true kings of triathlon in Utah. Your friend, Marcel

Marcel Vifian

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