Some races coming up for 2007

Here's what's caught my eye so far. Most of the tri's are on-road but none of them are pool swim:

6/24/07 I REALLY wanted to do the Garnet Hill Xterra. Also, the Webster on-road Tri is the same day. However, I have conflicting plans and will be drinking beer on a beach in Maine that weekend.

7/8/07 Cohasset Tri sold out but I put my name on the waiting list and after a few days got in! -- Update: Did it, time was ~ 1:28 !

7/15/07 Old Colony Tri (road tri. olympic distances)

8/11&12/07 This is the Stoaked off-road tri weekend. They have kids, sprint, and Xterra races. Xterra distances are basically the offroad equivalent of Olympic distances.

9/9/07 Of course I'll be doing the Hale off-road triathlon on 9/9 and my kids will be doing the Youth version of the race later the same day. The Hale people are great and I help them out with some of the tech stuff like online registration and such. It's a really fun race for off-roaders or families.

9/16/07 Dover Sherborn onroad tri

9/23/2007 Jordan brought my attention again to the DW Fields Tri in Brockton, a 14.5-mile bike , a 1.7-mile canoe/kayak, and a 10K run. There is no swim.

9/30/07 I did the Mud, Sweat, and Gears off-road Duathlon last year. Will do it again definitely.

10/28/2007 onroad Halloween Wrentham Tri

I'll probably tweak this list as I actually decide what i'm going to do. Please email me (or better yet POST) and feedback you have on these races.

Myles

More kinds of races

Haven't written in a year but just in case anyone is still checking or has an RSS feed...

Doing exclusively off-road sprint tri's has been too limiting, especially since there is only one in Massachusetts and probably four in all of New England. You can double those numbers if you include duathlons and Xterras but it's still just too narrow. So, I decided to widen things up a bit and look at other kinds of races. I've already done two 10K races. Not trail running just plain old 10K's on the road. I did the Cohasset 10k about a month ago and the Ramble 10K in Dedham, Ma a couple of weeks ago. It's not the same as running in the woods but you know what, it's not that bad. Also it gives me a chance to run with my wife since she's been doing 5k and 10k's for years. Yes she kicks my butt out there but hey, I'm new at this.

I'm also looking at xterras, mtn bike races, on-road tri's whatever. Know of a good race? Let me know. This year there are some GREAT new sites for finding events and such. You are no longer limited to FIRM and Active's crappy sites. Here are some innovative sites:

runningInTheUsa.com (fantastic site for all kinds of racing events)

mapmyrun.com (aka mapmytri.com) (clever and improving rapidly)


triMapper.com (very clever site. Allows search by type of tri including off-road vs. on-road. But poorly maintained)

OneMillionRevolutions.org (I stumbed on this one while looking at the Cohasset Tri site. It seems to have all the USAT sanctioned races mapped out. You can search by state and date. Lots of local tri's in there!)


I've added these links to the right margin of this page quasi-permanently.