A group of local duathletes are lobbying for a Half Iron Distance race to coincide with the Niagara Falls Half Iron Distance event in Sept, 2014. http://niagarafallstriathlon.com/home/
We are looking for more racers to help get the attention of the MSC management. We need as many duathletes as possible to open up the forum with John Salt and his team. If we can get a reasonable amount of committed athletes in the next few weeks, John believes he can make the race feasible for his group and will go to the next step of opening up the Registration process to make sure we are serious about supporting his efforts to bring us into the mix.
This will be a large challenge to gather 50 or more duathletes for this distance (5k / 90k / 21.1k) but if we start early, we may be able to work some magic.
Please let me know if you would be interested in racing the duathlon at this distance. You can comment (please leave name and contact info) or contact me directly at larrybradleytoronto @ yahoo.ca
IMO, those are odd distances. No reason to go the least bit hard for the first 5k because at most you’ll get 3 minutes of seperation after the first 5k which is then followed up by 2 hours of riding and 90 min of running
IMO, those are odd distances. No reason to go the least bit hard for the first 5k because at most you’ll get 3 minutes of seperation after the first 5k which is then followed up by 2 hours of riding and 90 min of running
IMO, those are odd distances. No reason to go the least bit hard for the first 5k because at most you’ll get 3 minutes of seperation after the first 5k which is then followed up by 2 hours of riding and 90 min of running
Well, duathlon is an odd sport. I, personally, think that the sport is the devil but to each his own.
I do wonder what adding a duathlon does to the RD’s responsibility. This race will likely be a bigger challenge since there are split transitions. I wonder how that affects the logistics of the race as well. Will duathletes have a single transition? If not, will they be bringing an extra pair of running shoes or expect the race to transport their shoes?
I think most runners have more than one pair of shoes. This would allow paper thin flats for run #1 and marginally heavier shoes for run #2!
As far as I’m concerned logistics are up to the RD, all I gotta do is sign up and race. Personally I’d love to see this happen.
Npage148 - it will be two transitions just like the triathlon. Each duathlete will need two sets of shoes but that should not be an issue.
The biggest addition to the race for the RD is the course marshalling and policing of the first 5k run. There are running paths attached to the first transition so that helps. As for the rest, you just end up doing the bike and final run with the triathletes so just a few extra bodies to acconmmodate.
I’d be coming from Rochester, NY, but I’m very interested. We have a 100 mile Duathlon/Triathlon over here (see http://www.100miletriathlon.com/). It is held in the middle of nowhere up along Lake Ontario in October, and they still got about 70-80 people to show up.
No surprise I’m definitely interested. I would hope for more people being interested because we just had the world du’s in ottawa which WS a success for triathlon Canada and the Canadian team as a whole. 50 shouldn’t be totally impossible.
As for the distance, for me personally, the longer the better. So make the first run 10k if you can!
John Salt: I know you do an amazing job at these races and your challenges with organizing duathlons, so I just request that this be given a fair thought…if the numbers don’t work in the end, they don’t work.
It will also be challenging from the perspective that the Niagara half is more or less the “flagship” race of MSC next year and being its first edition, lots of new things will keep popping up that require more planning and coordination.
I’ve got some surgery of my own coming up, but if all goes according to plan I’d like to give this a shot.
Should be a nice workout before October’s Toronto marathon
Glad to see you trying to get some Dus established. My favorite racing by far. I’m not in Ontario yet, though may be in the near future and would totally look into this event. We have the option of an iron distance Duathlon in Nova Scotia with Epic Dartmouth. That is a far too long for me, but a Half is quite tempting.
This sounds extremely fun! I was at ITU Worlds in Ottawa this August and really loved the area. That said, I don’t think I will be able to get in another 15hr drive from Chicago, but hope this race gets the attention!
