I know the recent precedent seems to be that cities host for 2-3 years, but I was surprised to see this when running a google search for the 2025 location:
Does this suggest Atlantic City is a 1 and done location if they are soliciting new/open bids for 2025?
I was wondering when/if this thread would resurface. I had posted I’m not a fan of Atlantic City and was hoping they would keep it in Milwaukee. My Inbox is full of “begging” emails asking me to sign up for this year’s race which I don’t plan on doing. I’m curious to see how attendance will compare to last year’s race.
Same^^^^^ Milwaukee was perfect and even though it’s not a distance I normally do, I certainly go there. It’s much more than just a race with the vibe and ease of all the logistics of a race.
Agree. I actually replied to the email and said I wasn’t interested in the AC location. Got a reply that said thanks for my feedback and they appreciated my input. Heh.
Milwaukee is not a sexy sounding place, but for anyone that’s been there, it’s a great venue.
Agreed. I’m not going to AC for the reasons discussed on the thread. Milwaukee was a great venue, hopefully they will have a better location next year.
I haven’t had any real problems racing on the boardwalk since he was able to rope it off a little bit.
It was crazy a few years ago when all he had were signs saying “Race in Progress” and the boardwalk was a free for all.
I think it’s much better now
Anyway, I’m not sure about extending the expressway. The next exit is the GSP. I don’t see that happening.
The next exit after that is Delilah Road which is almost 5 miles up from the normal Tri AC exit., so that’s be 10 miles round trip…just to the original course…too much.
Looks like the course maps are up.
Basically the same course as the AC Tri. They are taking the same exit as they always have and just have you ride out further up to a 180 turnaround and come back to add the 3 miles. Not shocked, but kinda wished they could have come up with something a little new or unique…
I thought they just had nationals in Omaha and them more nationals in Dec in FL
I get confused what is what lol
Yeah. The event in Omaha was the “Multisport National Championships”. So things like Aquabike, Aquathlon, Draft legal Triathlon / Duathlon / Mixed Relay…
What’s in Atlantic City this year is the usual Sprint and Olympic Triathlon AG Nationals. Just renamed to Sprint and Olympic National Championships…
The December event is Long Course National Championships
I haven’t had any real problems racing on the boardwalk since he was able to rope it off a little bit.
It was crazy a few years ago when all he had were signs saying “Race in Progress” and the boardwalk was a free for all.
I think it’s much better now
Anyway, I’m not sure about extending the expressway. The next exit is the GSP. I don’t see that happening.
The next exit after that is Delilah Road which is almost 5 miles up from the normal Tri AC exit., so that’s be 10 miles round trip…just to the original course…too much.
Looks like the course maps are up.
Basically the same course as the AC Tri. They are taking the same exit as they always have and just have you ride out further up to a 180 turnaround and come back to add the 3 miles. Not shocked, but kinda wished they could have come up with something a little new or unique…
About time they finally got courses up. As others have already pointed out the logistics of AC seems to be a giant downgrade versus what we had in Milwaukee
There were nearly 30% less entries compared to last year. But this doesn’t even tell the whole story. The eastern seaboard has a far greater population within driving distance, and so you would expect (as USAT probably did) that numbers would be even higher.
Population within 500km
~ 43.0 million MKE
~ 68.8 million AC
When you adjust for population, it’s like having 56% less participants versus last year.
Sad to see. It shows that location matters and people will travel if it’s worth it. Let’s just hope USAT doesn’t repeat their mistakes next year.
Not just that, but the sheer number of “big” races around this date…Nice, IMMD, IMChoo, IM 70.3 Augusta, etc etc.
The other thing that the chart doesn’t take into account is the number of athletes doing BOTH the Oly and Sprint. The numbers are far further down than that chart shows.
True, a September date was also a very bad decision by USAT. Early to mid August is a perfect way to end the summer for young athletes before school starts
Once again a race organizer makes the easy location/trt tax rebate/calendar choices that work to their advantage and don’t align with their customers. Say it ain’t so?
Milwaukee 2023 was near perfection for everyone. Why the PTO didn’t continue, why USAT didn’t continue is beyond me.
Was the city unwilling to have them back?
How could you follow on that level of success and say, let’s just move it?
I guess how; they took their successful numbers and sold them to the highest bidding city and forgot that consumers have a say in the matter.
“This is working great, let’s change everything,” is not a winning strategy.
Wasn’t their construction going on near Discovery World for the new Hop extension? Could that have impacted USAT’s choice of venue? I can’t imagine since MKE has hosted 2013/2014/2015 and again 2021/2022/2023 that the city doesn’t want the event back but we’ll see when they announce the venue for 2025 if I wind up being wrong.
If they have it in AC next year I’m out. I’ve done Burlington, Milwaukee and Cleveland and this was by far the worst location. I’d be interested to know too if there was a huge drop off in West Coast representation.
As an aside, guy next to me in transition had his bike stolen.
Same here, Atlantic City was a disappointment compared to the previous locations. The participation number showed that too, could also be a poor choice to host it during the school year.
I’ve probably “qualified” for Nationals every year I’ve done triathlons, and I’ve always heard it is something you should do once. This is the first year I’ve done it.
I never felt like travel for it was worth it but since it was drive-close this year, I decided to give it a shot.
Here are some thoughts not asked for:
–Based on that experience, I wouldn’t travel more than a couple hours for it. The merch/swag was awful and frankly, the overall experience wasn’t anything exceptional. I don’t know if that was a product of the venue, but…meh.
–Atlantic City is in a bad way. I’ve done races at that venue for years and it’s visibly worse than just a few years ago. I’d rather it not come back. AC gets shit on enough locally, we don’t need the national audience piling on.
–The locals have bitched about every race, every year. AC Tri, IMAC, and now Nationals. Honestly until they can figure out a way to shut Albany Ave. down completely and re-route so people aren’t sitting in gridlock or change the course, that won’t change…That’s why the IMAC course was what it was. The outlying communities will not allow for road closures and impediments to get their cigarettes and slot machines.
I had something else, but already forgot…nevermind.
My daughter qualified for nationals so we went this year and stayed in Abescon. Traffic on race days was nuts on Albany Ave, and they closed the AC Expressway before the signage indicated.
The RD also stated that it was a ten-minute walk from Bader Field (start and transition) to the finsh (1.6 miles away!!!). LOL
Atlantic City is just depressing. It’s unbelievable that there are houses falling apart half a block from the beach. As much as I liked the convenience of being 2 hours from my house and I had really good lodging options wouldn’t recommend it agan.
