I just finished my first season in the sport and am planning for the next year. I was looking for early-season tune-up sprints within a reasonable drive, and most of what popped up are ones run by college teams. For example:
Anyone done these types of races? Are they generally a positive experience / well-organized for regular age-groupers? I can't tell if they're meant to be fundraisers for the college teams or if they're more like regular races that just happen to have a college club component mixed in.
- Stanford Treeathlon (run by the university team)
- MTS Triathlon (run by the Cal Poly SLO team)
- IronBruin (run by UCLA's team)
Anyone done these types of races? Are they generally a positive experience / well-organized for regular age-groupers? I can't tell if they're meant to be fundraisers for the college teams or if they're more like regular races that just happen to have a college club component mixed in.